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THE SYMBOL OF THE CROSS. 



Symbols and Symbolism— The Mystic Zodiac— Some 
Relations of Zodiac, Cross and Man. 

Everything made to represent a thing or thought is 
a symbol — as letters, numbers, or characters. Every 
art and science has its own appropriate symbols. 
Every calling and profession has the same. Symbols 
are used to designate weights and measures, and the 
Starry Constellations and Planets are all known by 
their proper signs and symbols. Every letter is a 
symbol, and every character representing number is a 
symbol also. Geometry is delineated in symbolic lines 
and, as every possible motion corresponds with these, 
every act of man or movement of planet or star are so 
many symbols of generic and individual status. 

Symbols are born of necessity, and are founded on 
Nature and her laws. They constitute the Language 
of the Infinite and appeal especially to both mind and 
eye. A familiarity with symbols is as essential to an 
education as a knowledge of words is to speech. And 
as speech is expressive of thought, so are symbols. 
Mystic science, art and philosophy have symbols also, 
each containing within itself a soul of divine truth. 

The dedicatory cross on the opposite page — one that 
is original with myself, and which appears in a volume 
of Agrippa, ** Natural Magic*' — is a symbol of the 
man, and of that Occult Philosophy of Geometric Man. 
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THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 



all, it is the human side of bis personality, his life and 
writings which most appeal to us. A necessary key 
to the mysteries of this Starry Cross is that majestic 
Symbol of the Infinite, the Zodiac. Indeed, an under- 
standing of the Zodiacal Symbol, on material lines at 




THE ZODIACAL SYMBOL. 

first, lies at the very fountain-head of a knowledge of 
celestial things and that which springs therefrom. 
To these ends we insert the following description. 

A DESCRIPTION OF THE ZODIAC. 

The Zodiac iti the area of the plane of the Earth's annual 
movement around the Sun, apparently extending to and in- 
cloHed by a HerieH of celeHtial conHtellatiomi. Theue form the 
apparent circumference of the Zodiac, a word denoting '' a cir- 
c}e of animalfi.** When we view the heavenly comstellationB 
they apparently form a vstat " celcHtial sphetii'' ^ibout the Earth; 



THE MYSTIC ZODIAC. 7 



and, being* so conceived, the Zodiac becomes its Equator, extend- 
ing- eight degrees on each side of the equatorial Ifne of the 
heavens. This width of sixteen degrees makes the Zodiac a 
belt of constellations which always occupies a fraction over 
one-twelfth part of the Celestial Sphere — either one-half, which 
we may view, or its entirety. A straight line extending from 
the Sun to the Earth or any one of its seven sister olanets will, 
if continued, intersect the belt of the Zodiac. 

A Law of Proportional Decrees. 

The Zodiac, like all other circles, has 360 degrees or parts; if 
each degree is one-3(>0th part of its entire circumference, it 
must be an absolutely true circle. Were we to draw a num- 
ber of circles around a common center, each having different 
diameters, and divide the outer one into 360 equal parts of area 
by means of straight lines, all intersecting its central point, we 
would at the same time also divide off into 360 equal parts each 
successive inside or smaller circle. It is now readily seen that 
the smallest circle has degrees in length of circumference very 
much smaller than those of the outer circle, but the degrees of 
each circle are proportional in length to their diameters in a 
true mathematical ratio and hence the degrees of any one circle 
exist in a true and absolute mathematical proportion with all 
other circles. Therefore our printed Zodiac here mathemati- 
cally accords with, and has an absolute relation to that Celestial 
Zodiac which springs from the planes of the orbits of the Earth 
and planets of our Solar System. It is self-evident from this 
that the true degree of solar arc" occupied by any member of 
the Solar System may be determined as to its mathematical rela- 
tion to all other bodies. It makes no difference whether the 
orbit of any planet be irregular or departs in any way from the 
path of a true circle, if its orbit be closed and it therefore be a 
permanent member of our Solar System, its true positional de- 
gree of arc may be mathematically determined if we extend 
our above illustration. Each line drawn through the center of 
our series of perfect circles are diameter lines, and are 180 in 
number. Each one of these diameters intersect at a common 
point or center of the series of circles, thus giving 360 radiating 
or meridian lines of longitude. The first diameter drawn should 
be perpendicular or straight up and down, as we are erecting a 
figure and should travel upward from the lowest point. The 
lowest longitudinal line thus becomes our prime meridian from 
which we commence to number the degrees of all circles in our 
series, ascending therefrom on our right and finally arriving at 
our prime meridian again, which becomes the txxYtbiSx \^\iSiS»x7i 
of degree 360 and the starting poiut oi ^^^^^\^'a.Tia.NA*<^'^^'^'^'^^ 



8 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

numbered as "0," as in our Zodiac. We will now draw a very 
elongated circle or ellipse through the series, commencing at the 
outer circle and passing around the Sun-point or radiating cen- 
ter inside the smaller circle. Supposing that this ellipse was 
the path traveled by a planet we can see that in approaching 
the Sun the planet travels through a series of degrees of longi- 
tudinal orbit which constantly decrease in length. The move- 
ment of the planet, if unaccelerated by gravity, would cause it 
to travel through these shortening degrees in proportional less 
periods of time, the planet apparently moving faster and faster 
as it approaches the Sun, which rate of orbit may be accurately 
determined by. the proportional degrees of the successive true 
circles through which it constantly moves, plus the increasing 
degree of gravitation of each inner true circle, taken in con- 
nection with the time it takes for the planet to travel its full 
orbit. The division of the Celestial Circle into 360 degrees is a 
natural one and represents a standard that harmonizes with its 
general and specific divisions. These we will now consider. 

Mystic Quarters and Meridians. 

If we draw a new circle and divide it, as before, with a per- 
pendicular diameter line, and then draw another at right angles 
thereto, we will have a circle divided into four equal parts of 90 
degrees each, exactly coinciding with the Quarters or general 
divisions of the Zodiac. Its four general meridians represent 
a great Celestial Cross, eternal in the Heavens, from the center 
of which shines the glorious Sun. Each arm of this cross rep- 
resents an Equinox or Solstice, to which points the Earth, in its 
orbit, goes from one season of ,the year to another. On March 
21 the Earth crosses the Vernal or Spring Equinoctial line, the 
upper arm of the Celestial Cross, leaving Virgo and entering 
Libra. As it is the Sun and not the E^rth that appears to move, 
the Sun is said to enter Aries, in the B^t (opposite to Libra, in 
the West), commencing its ascent to Cancer, in the North. So 
Spring commences and lasts while the Sun apparently travels 
through the First Quarter of the Zodiac, which is symbolized by 
a heart, the emblem of love and joy. The Summer Solstice 
occurs June 21, and the Second Quarter is aptly emblematized by 
the club or clover-leaf of the Summer season; it also denotes 
thought and study. On September 23 the Autumnal Equinox is 
due; the season of year it inaugurates is represented by a dia- 
mond, mo6t symbolical of the crops of the Fall; it stands for 
wealth and the Third Quarter of the Zodiac. The fourth and 
last season of the year begins December 21, at the Winter Sol- 
stice, when the Earth enters Cancer, and the Sun crosses the 
ma^t ScKitbem meridian of the Zodiac, or remaining arm of its 



ZODIACAL DIVISIONS. 9 

Celestial Cross,, between Sagittarius and Capricomus. This last 
and Fourth Quarter of the Zodiac has a spade as its symbol, a 
mark of physical labor; or, as an acorn, a sign of stores provided 
against the rigors of Winter, ^and also of a resurrection, through 
the Lamb of Aries, unto *' eternal life ** at the final " passover '* 
from earth to astral existence. 

The Twelve Houses— Their Classifications. 

As the seasons naturally divide the Zodiac into four quarters 
so the three complete lunar circuits (there being thirteen annu- 
ally), which occur during each season and quarter, naturally 
divide each of them into three parts, termed houses, the four 
quarters giving the twelve houses of the Zodiac. The houses are 
named after the constellations of the Zodiac, each having signs 
and symbols, as shown in our printed Zodiac, and occupying 
equal portions, or 30 degrees each, of the Zodiacal area. They 
are numbered from 1 to 12, Aries being the 1st house and Pisces 
the 12th, Houses 1 to 6, Aries to Virgo, ascend on the right and 
are therefore known as the Houses of Right Ascension, or the 
" Royal Arch;" while those from 7 to 12 are known as Houses of 
Left Declension. The Zodiac is correct in no other position. 

There are other minor divisions of the Zodiac, like the Supe- 
rior Houses, or those houses wherein the planets reach nearest 
the Sun (known as perihelion points) in their movements; these 
being Pisces, and Aries to Virgo. The "Fixed Houses," so 
called because the Quarter does not change in entering or leav- 
ing them, are, of course, the central houses of each Quarter. ^ 
The first houses of each Quarter are termed " Cardinal," being 
those that mark the four cardinal points — Aries being the East, 
Cancer the North, Libra the West, and Capricornus the South. 
The last houses of the Quarter are termed " Movable," for 
the Seasons change with their termination. 

Tripliclfcles and Quartenarles. 

The other more notable divisions of the Zodiac are the Tri- 
plicities of Earth, Fire, Air and Water. Each triplicity has, 
of course, three houses, all of whom are equi-distant from, or in 
" trine " to each other. The Triplicity of Earth embraces Tau- 
rus, Capricornus and Virgo; that of Fire—Leo, Aries and Sagit- 
tarius; of Air— Aquarius, Libra and Gemini; and of Water — 
Scorpio, Cancer and Pisces. 

The Quarters relate to the "four elements " also,* the First to 
Earth, the Second to Fire, the third to Air, and the Fourth to 
Water. The Humane Quartenary is Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius 
and Aquarius, and these are, therefore, the Houses at "S»sasi». 
Nature, and relate to the Kingdom oi ^"axi. '^[Xife ^^^aj^^'soi.^^^ 



10 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Nature is represented by that which antagonizes man, repre- 
sented by the Quartenary of Darkness — Taurus for famine and 
noxious growths, Cancer for cold and darkness, Scorpio for the 
treacherous and deceptive in Nature, and Pisces for disease and 
death. The Divine Quartenary is represented by that which is 
for the good of man — Aries for life and love, Leo for light and 
intelligence. Libra for justice and spirituality, and Capricornus 
for invention and progress. 

The Zodiac, as described, with the Sun and planets, is a great 
time-piece of the Infinite. By reason of the Earth's daily revo- 
lution its grand divisions seem to " rise " «ind ** set,'' but, so far 
as the Earth is concerned, it is absolutely stationary by reason of 
the polarity of the Earth to the Sun in each House of the Zodiac. 

The Agrippian Cross and Its Mysteries. 

In the Agrippian Cross it will be observed that there 
are, counting all stars in each line, seven stars at the 
base, seven at the top, seven on each extreme side, 
seven on each side of its upper right angles, and seven 
on the lower sides of its limbs — giving nine sevens 
above and one below. Between those above and the 
foot of the cross are two lines of thirteen stars each. 
The numbers so obtained are significant of the Solar 
syi&tem and its Zodiac, for there are seven major plan- 
ets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, 
Neptune — and thirteen major points to the Zodiac, the 
twelve houses — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, 
Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aqua- 
rius, and Pisces — which all meet at the place of the 
Sun, making a central and thirteenth point. 

The nhie sevens represent the seven planets above 
noted with the Sun and Moon, and the lower seven 
represents the Earth, which is under and subject to 
the nine great solar magnets. The thirteen major 
points represent the Twelve Great "Polarities of the 
Earth to the Sun (the thirteenth point, where all forces 
meet, both planetary and Zodiacal, to go forth again) 
in traveling the houses of the Zodiac. Prom this we 
conclude that the Zodiacal influence is determined by 
tAe polarity of the EJarth in and as to the twelve 



INFLUENCE OF POLARITIES. 11 

houses, rather than by the starry constellations from 
which they are named. Hence the influence of a house 
is nothing more than the polarity of the Earth therein, 
and as the polarity of the Earth is always the same in 
each house the ** influence," or rather characteristics, of 
the houses are always the same. The characteristics 
that pertain to each house would change, however, if 
they were the direct influences of the Zodiacal constel- 
lations, for these seem to move forward, themselves, 
through the Zodiac, the constellation of Pisces being 
now in the House of Aries. The constellations are so 
far removed from our Solar System, that our solar 
movements cannot possibly change their astral poten- 
cies so as to detect any change in them whatever, and 
their influences are therefore constant. Aside from 
the constellations each house of the Zodiac is merely 
so much empty space, utterly devoid of any significa- 
tion, influence, characteristic or potency whatever, 
unless it be occupied by the Earth or one of the nine 
other significant solar bodies. Hence no ruling planet 
can be obtained from an apparently '* rising sign, *' or 
house, when that house is merely so much vacant 
space, because some so-called astrologer (ignorant of 
the existence of some of the planets, their movements 
and of the heliocentric character of our solar system), 
some way back in the dark, foul-smelling age of eccle- 
siastical astronomy, gave it as his opinion that each 
house had a ruling planet, and that one's ruling planet 
must be determined from its sign irrespective of where 
, such planet might be aspected. The Heliocentric sys- 
tem of astrology, being in accord with the demonsta- 
ble facts of science and familiar with the truths of the 
solar system, is founded on the only rational basis for 
astrological research, while the geocentric system can 
be true only in so far as it blunders into touch or co- 
ordinates with heliocentric truth. We also learn that 
the influence of the planets, in regard to the Earthy 
comes mainly through the Suiv, b^ x^'a^^otL o\ •3iXS.\«^<ysL^ 



12 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

centering and radiating' therefrom. Though a direct 
influence, as shown by planetary pertubations, may be 
noted, still such degree of influence can only be meas- 
ured by including the Sun as a factor in the solution — 
the angle formed by the Earth, the planet, and the 
Sun showing the "area of planetary influence." 

Heliocentric Astrology includes such direct planet- 
ary influences as may be noted between the planets in 
its system of solar aspects, they being rated so as to 
include all influences, both those angular and direct. 

If we number these stars consecutively — starting at 
the center star of the base line and ascending upward 
on the right around the cross — we will find that the 
central star of the upper line of the cross is number 
forty-three, which is a sign that when man reaches the 
end of his forty-second year his Line of Life crosses 
the upi)er celestial meridian of Earth's existence. 

We further find at each intersection of the four limbs 
of the cross a star with a number that adds into seven. 
The central star of each of the horizontal limbs gives 
two other like numbers — seven such numbers in all — 
each and all representing the days of the week, the 
lunar quarter, and the seven planets. They are as 
follows in number and position: 

Crown of Astral Sevens. 

43 

52 34 

61 2S 

70 16 

The above numbers, with their relative positions in 
the Mystic Cross, symbolize that Celestial Crown of 
Eternal Life we should aspire to win in the great cross 
of life. The life of Cornelius Agrippa was a heavy 
cross which tried him in all that may test the body, 
mind or spirit. But his hand was ever ready for the 



CROWNING YEARS OP LIFE. 18 

right in peace or war; his head was devoted to the 
just, the true and the good, while his heart was faith- 
ful, noble and brave. Who can say he did not win an 
Immortal Crown of Life? 

The life periods of man {nine years each) correspond 
to the planets according to these Crown Numbers (the 
first seven years coming under the Moon), as follows: 

Planetary Life Periods. 

Years 8 to \Q is a period especially under Mercury, 
Years 17 to 25 is the period under Venus. 
Years 26 io 34 is the Mars period. 
Years S6 to 43 is the Jupiter period. 
Years ^4 to 52 is the Saturn period. 
Years 63 to Q\ is the Uranus period. 
Years 62 to 70 — *' three score and ten " — is the Neptwne 
period of Life. 

The black figures show the culminating or Crowning 
years, subject to a proportional scale determined from 
a person's Ruling Planets and Line of Life. 

The seven stars in each of the ten lines before noted 
show the seven planetary polarities which affect each 
planet, and the number of major planets each affects, 
each planet (including the Earth now in its character 
as a planet) being affected by and affecting seven other 
planets, the houses making them so many polarities. 

The thirteen stars on the right represent the thir- 
teen weeks of each quarter or season, and those on 
the left the thirteen lunar circuits. Their sum total is 
twenty-six, representing the weeks in the year when 
the Sun ascends the Royal Arch. 

The number of stars embraced in the three upper 
limbs of the cross is fifty-five^ giving 355, or the whole 
course in days of the Moon's thirteen annual circuits 
and the sum of planetary polarities she yearly affects 
as to the Earth; and the four s^^exis ^.\. *Cafe ^xl^^^'s^ 
the cxoBB give the twenty-eiglit ZioficvauC^Y i^c^'^ ^'^ "^^ 



14 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Moon and the number of days she takes to travel the 
-whole Zodiac. 

The total of stars in the lower limb of the cross is 
thirty-one, giving the extreme number of days of any 
month of the year. 

The total of stars in the whole border of the cross 
is eighty-four, which sum is the square of the nine 
great magnets which affect the Earth (81), plus the 
three worlds of man — physical, mental, and spiritual — 
to which they relate. The sum of the digits of this 
number add into the number of the Zodiacal houses. 

During life man travels through the Zodiac (begin- 
ning in Aries at birth and ending in Pisces at death) 
as a planet, the orbit of which is the Line of Life. 

This line of life corresponds, first, with the orbit of 
Uranus^ whose solar period is eighty-four years. The 
twelve Houses of the Zodiac, multiplied by the Seven 
Planets, give us the Eighty-four Primary Planetary 
Polarities, or the polarity of each planet in each house, 
and these also correspond, in Earth years, with the 
term of the orbit of Uranus, giving twenty-one years 
to each quarter of life, as follows: 

The Quarters of Life. 

First Quarter — 1 to 21 years — the Sj)ring Season of 
Life — Hearts, showing Love, Youth and Growth. 

Second Quarter — 22 to 42 years — Summer Season of 
Life — Clubs, showing Mind, Manhood and Fruitage. 

Third Quarter — 43 to 63 years — the Autumn Sea.son of 
Life — Diamonds, showing Wealth, Maturity, Karma. 

Fourth Quarter — 64 to 84 years — the Winter Season of 
Life — Spades, showing Duty, Old Age and Passover. 

The Quarters of Life commence and terminate at its 

Equinoxes and Solstices. The birth of the incarnated 

being is its Vernal Equinox, and it arrives at its Ver- 

naJ JSguinox again at its passover to Astral Life. The 

two birtba (Srat into the elemental ^wotld aud then^ at 



THE SOLSTICES OP LIFE. 15 

the passover, into the astral world) are typified by the 
two horns of the Lamb of Aries. The * * second death " 
which we cannot avoid — as a necessary sequence of Nature 
' — if we fail to deserve a resurrection in being* * * born ' ' 
anew unto eternal life, is symbolized by the two fishes 
of Pisces — the House of the Gates of Death. Thus 
man has three equinoctial points to life — the first at 
birth, when he enters his spring quarter in the first 
point of Aries; the second at his Autumn Equinox, at 
the age of forty-two, when he crosses the Upper Celes- 
tial Meridian of Life and enters his Season of Pall; 
and the third when the gates of Pisces open to him the 
way to the ** bottomless pit" of the second death or to 
the new birth unto immortaj life, for as in life we sink 
unto death so in death do we rise unto life. These 
equinoctial points are the angles of life's morn, high 
noon and setting sun. The upright body of the cross 
is a symbol of these points of life, one of which ever 
ascends above and one ever descends below the central 
point of equilibrium which represents the incarnated 
ego. Thus upright man is Nature's Symbol of Immor- 
tal Intelligence, Eternal Life and Infinite Progress. 

The first Solstice of life appears when the youth, 
reaching the age of twenty-one, is accounted a man. 
Tools are placed in his hands with which to work out 
his own well being. He now enters his Summer Sea- 
son, when toil and thought are aimed toward a fruitage 
of good ambitions and natural desires. The Winter 
Solstice of life is when Nature calls a halt to labor 
and strikes the karmic balance of his harvest season. 
The Solstices of seed-time and harvest, of planting 
and reaping, are denoted by the horizontal limbs of 
the cross which, being equal to each other, show the 
equilibrium in Nature between cause and effect and 
the divine law that man must reap what he sows. 

The five points of the cross form the pyramidic sym- 
bol of life with the Sun for its apex, whence. \^^ \^^>cct 
quarters radiate, each ** governed.^' \>^ owe. o\ \\\e.\.ox«i 



16 



THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 



great planets — Venus for the Social Quarter, Mars for 
the Mental Quarter, Jupiter for the Financial Quarter, 
and Saturn for the Physical Quarter. 

Mercury, Uranus and Neptune pertain to the triplic- 
ities, which are each emblematized by the three upper 
limbs of the cross. In like manner each quartenary is 
ruled by the Lords of the Quarters, each planet hav- 
ing its particular house in each quartenary. 

The Eighty-four Primary Polarities of the Seven 
Planets are the Grand Polarities of the Line of Life. 
The permutation of seven gives us the Five Thousand 
and Forty Grand Planetary Aspects of Life. These 
Grand Aspects, taken in connection with the Grand 
Polarities, give the Grand Four Hundred and Twenty. 
three Thousand, Three Hundred and Sixty Heliocen- 
tric Life Horoscopes, which, when properly arranged, 
will form the only true Book op Life. 

Tliia Book of Life has never yet been made by man, but 
will be by One Faithful and True, He alone wlio is able to 
open its Seven Seals is worthy to read it. 

The numbers 84 and 5040 have correspondence with 
the daily movement of the Earth as expressed in units 
of time, for in seven days there are twice 84 hours and 
twice 5040 minutes. The number 428860 corresponds 
to the minutes in forty- two weeks. 

The Line of Life, having correspondence with the 
solar period of Uranus, moves, as a planet, through a 
house of the Zodiac each seven years, giving: 

The Twelve Polar Periods of the Line or Life. 



Hearts. 

1 Aries, age 
of 1 to 7 

2 Taurus 

8 to 14 

8 Gemini 
15to21 



Clubs. 

4 Cancer 

22 to 28 

5 Leo 

29 to 85 

6 Virgo 

86 to 42 



Diamonds. 

7 Libra 

48 to 49 

8 Scorpio 

50 to 66 

9 Sagittar'8 

57 to 68 



Spades. 

10 Capric'm 

64 to 70 

11 Aquarius 
71 to 77 

12 Pisces 
78toM 



THE SEAL OP SOLOMON. 17 

The rectification of the horoscope is made with this 
table, taking three points or events sis indicating fac- 
tors to correct the mean Uranus standard of eighty- 
four years as noted, which years are symbolized by the 
border stars of the cross. 

Half of these border stars are dark and half light, 
showing that the life of man is a mingling of hardship 
and comfort, happiness and concern, health and dis- 
ease, and all the lights and shades, and good and evil 
of the cross of life. 

Solomon's Seal was composed of two interlaced tri- 
angles — one light and pointing upward, and the other 
dark and pointing downward. The light triangle was 
symbolical of the Spiritual Man in his moral, intel- 
lectual and intuitional powers. The dark triangle 
was symbolical- of the Material Man in his productive, 
locomotive and destructive powers. Being interlaced 
signified that these spiritual and material powers 
should exist in a state of equilibrium and that in such 
a state man might become a true image of his Maker 
arid thereby be able to create all things necessary for 
his human or sociological world. As a creator man 
exercises divine laws over material things and fulfills 
his destiny in thus working out the will and wisdom of 
Infinite Intelligence. 

There are seven points to this Seal of Solomon — the 
six points of its interlaced triangles and its center, a 
point equidistant from the other six. This seventh 
central point symbolizes the Spirit of the Seal or its 
Sun of Potency, and, being a unit, represents 1, while 
its surrounding points represent 6. The sum of the 
squares of these two numbers give the Astral Num- 
ber of Potency of the Seal, as follows: 

The square of the 1 encircled point — the Incarnated 
Sun or Ego, symbol of Elohim, Law and Spirit — is 1. 

The square of tlje 6 encircling points — the Circle of 
the Seal, symbol of Isis, Nature and S\ife^\.^xvc^--^^^'^* 

The sum of these squares \a ^T ^ ^\\\0q. x^-^x^'s.e^^ ^^^"^ 



18 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Astral Potency of the Seal, and is the total number of 
stars in the body of our Agrippian Cross. 

This number, 37, adds into 10, showing One raised to 
•he Life of a higher incarnated unity and equilibrium. 

Here we find Agrippa on the cross, for as these stars 
symbolize Unity and Equilibrium they fitly represent 
his individuality in that his whole life may be summed 
up in these words, ** Devotion and Duty. " 

The thirteen dark stars in the body of the cross and 
the fifty-five dark stars of the entire cross, with its 
one oblong and three square limbs, give the numbers 
1-13 and 3-55, significant of that faulty quadrature of 
the circle having a diameter of 113 to a circumference 
of 355, a geometical emblem of imperfect man, who nec- 
essarily is so that he may progress toward perfection. 

The twenty-four light stars in the body of the cross 
symbolize the hours of the day, the time required for 
the Earth to make one solar revolution, and in which 
all constellations of the Zodiac rule over the Zenith 
of the Heavens for two hours each, moving as a great 
girdle, of which the Sun may termed the *' buckle. " 

The total of light stars in the entire cross gives the 
number 66, the digits of which are significant of the 
ascending and descending houses of the Zodiac, and of 
the twelve great gates of life. The total of dark stars 
in the entire cross, gives the number 55, the digits of 
which symbolize the Pentagons of Power of man in 
his two hands; the digits of 66 show the double rela- 
tionship (of darkness to light and light to darkness) in 
which he uses them in human and divine works as 
symbolized by the Seal of Solomon. The common 
divisor of both numbers is 11, the digits of which show 
the unity and equilibrium that exists between Elohim 
and Isis or God and Nature. 

The total number of light and dark stars in the cross 
g'ives the number 121, the square of 11, showing the 
divine Order, Use and Beauty of the Cosmos through 
InJSnite Power, Justice and Goodness. 



THE GEOMETRIC AND COSMIC WORD. 19 

It will be seen tha.t there are fifty-eight words in the 
cross, the digits of which number give the mystic 18 
by addition. They are divided by the cross into parts 
which contain 11, 6-^-S^ 11, and 2Ji. words, showing the 
geometrical Word (symbolized by the true right-angled 
triangle formed by the 3-4-5) working between and 
within the Spiritual and Material Worlds (11 and 11) 
through all (24) hours of time. 

That Henry Cornelius Agrippa was properly named 
for one known as a Master Mystic may be determined 
from the numbers of the letters of the three words of 
his name. The five letters in Henry gives the penta- 
gramic Ctar of the Magi, Cornelius the Number of Ini- 
tiation, and Agrippa the Sum of the Potencies. Thus 
his name contains twenty-one or three times seven let- 
ters. The age at which he passed over, 49 years, is the 
square of the chief word of his name — Agrippa — and in 
life he merited the seven titles contained in the cross. 

There are thirteen points of punctuation — ten com- 
mas and three periods — which are thus interpreted: 

Numbers of Perfection are those whose digits add 
into Ten or One, a number emblematic of the Unity, 
Concord and Harmony of the Infinite Cosmos. The 
primary series of Ones are the following ten numbers — 
10, 19, 28, 37, 46, 55, 64, 73, 82, 91. These ten numbers 
accord with the polarities, steps or commas of universal 
Necessity, Evolution and Progression as manifested by 
the conditions, motions and forms of the Cosmic Unit. 

Infinite Law makes itself manifest as a Trinity of 
primary, positive and persistent Principles — all equal 
and reciprocal as to each other. Together, they form 
the Cosmic Word and are the full stops, or periods y to 
intuitive investigation, representing that perfect, im- 
movable and eternal foundation of Goodness, Justice 
and Power whereon Humanity will erect its Temple 
of Beauty, Order and Use — a prototype of that astral 
edifice , ' ' Our Father 's House. ' ' The thirteen ' ' >^^^s^.^'' 
thus indicate the threefold \5ml^ oi \}cifc ^o'^xs^a^* 



20 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

The cross is an unfolded cube the faces of which are 
seen in the six squares of our symbol. The five points 
of the cross, which result from this unfoldment, sym- 
bolize pentagframic man, who Is, therefore, a cube un- 
folded in flesh. Ag'ain, the cross holds relationship 
with the Grand Celestial Cross of the Heavens, spring- 
ing from the solstices, and equinoxes of the Earth's 
orbit, which, made potent by its central Sun, calls into 
being the astral circle of the Zodiac. Thus man is a 
Microcosm of the Macrocosm, a circle of individual 
being patterned after the Grand Circle of the Infinite. 
His hands hold, in themselves, the twin Pentacles of 
Power, through whose use he works out the Wisdom 
of the Omniific Will. Man is both a square and a cir- 
cle, a cube and a globe, and, as such, he is a quadra- 
ture in flesh of the Astral Zodiac and Nature 's cube of 
her Celestial Sphere. 

Illustrative of man's geometrical relations to the 
cube or cross, pyramid or pentagram, and circle or 
sphere, we introduce here the following extract from 
Agfrippa's second book of Occult Philosophy relative 
to **the proportion, measure and harmony of man's 
body," in text and figures as follows: 

** Seeing man is the most beautiful and perfect work 
of God, and his image, and also a type of the lesser 
world, therefore he, by a most perfect composition, 
divine harmony and sublime dignity, doth contain and 
maintain in himself all numbers, measures, weights, 
motions, elements, and all other things which are of 
his composition; and in him, as it is in the Supreme 
workmanship, all things attain to a certain high con- 
dition, beyond the ordinary consonancy which they 
obtain in other combinations. 

** Some measure the body by six feet, a foot by ten 

degrees, and every degree by five minutes; from hence 

are numbered sixty degrees, which make three hundred 

minutes, ** the Ark (300 cubits long, 50 broad, and 30 

Aig-b) having analogy with the measures of man. 



MAN MOVES SPIRALLY. 



SI 



" The measures of all the members are porportionate 
and consonant both to the portions of the world and 
measures of the Archetype, and, so agreeing, there is 
no member in man but hath correspondence with some 
sign, star, intelligence, and divine name — something in 
God himself, the Archetype. 

"The whole measure of the body may be turned, 
and, procee.ding from roundness, tends to It again: 




THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 



"The four-square measure is the most perfectly pro- 
portioned body, for iif a man be placed upright, his 
feet joined and his arms stretched forth, he forms an 
equilateral quadrature: 




pentagramic points of man. 28 

"If from the center of the quadrature a circle be 
drawn above the crown of the head, the arms being 
lowered until the fingers touch it, and the heels spread 
to form a triangle with the navel, the circle will be 
divided into five equal parts by the perfect pentagon 
formed by the man: 




24 



THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 



"If, tbe heelB being unmoved, the feet be stretched 
forth on each side to the right and left, and the arms 
lifted and hands extended in corresponding manner, 
the tips of the extremities will form a square of equal 
sides, whose center is at the navel in the girdling of 
the body: 




GEOMETRIC MAN. 2S 

" If the arms are now lowered so that the hands are 
level with the head, and the feet replaced in the pen- 
tagramic position, lowering the height one-fourteenth 
part, a circle, having the navel as its center, which 
Includes the hands will be found to likewise include 
the feet, showing point, line, trine, square and circle: 




S6 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

"If the hands be lifted high above the head, the 
feet being brought together, and the figure inclosed in 
an equilateral square, the center of such square -will 
be at the navel, which is midway between the crown 
of the bead and the knees:" 




We give in the foregoing all that Agrippa says in 
regard to these old time illustratioas. He does not 
state how or where he obtained them, but from their 
unexplained mathematical, astronomical and s3rmbol- 
ical characters we may reasonably identify tbem as 
origiaatiag with the Rosicrucian Brotherhood. 



TELEPATHY AND INSPIRATION. 27 



SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 



Thought; Telegraphy— Mind Radiation and Inspiration— 
An Illustrative Inspirational Test Case. 

It has been observed that thought may pass between 
persons without other medium than that of natural 
love, sympathy, an affinitive companionship, or some 
other marked social relation. This communication of 
thought is known as ** telepathy,'' and may be defined 
as the mental cognizance of thought between mortals. 
In precisely the same way we may receive and cognize 
the thought of astral intelligences — those who live in 
the celestial infinitudes — and this phenomenon we call 
** inspiration. '* How thought, with no other powers 
than those of the mind, and those it mentally sways 
or commands, can pass from one intelligence to another 
may be analogous to the phenomena of the telegraph, 
our sympathies and relationships acting as the wires 
or media of communication; or, again, thought may 
so pass by reason of the intelligence being an Astral 
Flame, which, like the Sun, may radiate its thought, 
the light of which the Seer alone may recognize and 
read — even that from the Exalted Ones. 

However these things may be, certain it is that from 
mere childhood I have often held communion with 
invisible companions. One in particular, whom I 
knew as my ** teacher, ' ' I conversed freely with, almost 
daily, from the age of twelve to twenty-one. 

During this same period I was so sensitive that I 
could, under proper surroundings, take the thought of 
a spiritual visitor as readily and clearly as though in 
ordinary conversation with a friend. Telepathy and 
soul sight and hearing were also experienced. 

I will relate one instance showing how accurately I 
received spiritual messages and lio^ x^WaXAa *Cqk^^ 



28 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

communications were. During* the summer of 1873 I 

resided in the city of Y , Ohio. I was engaged in 

learning photography with a Mr. S . Among my 

acquaintances was a lady who had lost a gentleman 
friend. He had passed away indifferent to the creed 
of brimstone orthodoxy — that sweet and tender mes- 
sage of " gfreat joy " which for centuries has filled the 
minds of spiritual women with fear for " unregenerate 
and unsaved" kin and friends. My lady acquaintance 
had this fear for her friend. They had been sincere 
companions, and she had seen him last when starting 
on a journey to make a visit of some weeks. When she 
returned, wondering at not hearing from him, she 
found him buried but a few days before. Not a word 
had he left for her, though on his sick-bed he had im- 
plored that she be sent for. To quiet him his folks 
pretended to do this; and her people, thinking that 
her visit "would be spoilt," decided to wait for her 
return. Upon requesting to be shown his photograph 
I was told that none existed of him; that, though she 
had often expressed a desire for one, he had never 
given it to her. She was also certain that he [would 
have done so if his picture had been taken. 

A few days after my lady acquaintance had given 

me these particulars I had occasion to ask Mr. S 

for an old negative to ** retouch," as I desired to com- 
plete my knowledge of this branch of the art, having 
first studied a work he had procured for me. In 
answer to my request the fine old gentleman took me 
into the ** dark-room, " and, pointing to an upper shelf, 
told me that he had put a lot of negatives there when 
he first purchased the gallery, some three years before, 
and that I might get the step-ladder and help myself 
to such as I wanted. This I proceeded to do. 

I took, after a bit, a card-size negative in my hand, 
when there came the words, clear as a bell, to my inner 
consciousness, * • That's me. " " Well, who is * me ' ? " I 
mentally asked, and an answer affirmed that it was 



AN INSPIRATIONAL EXPERIENCE. 29 

the friend of my lady acquaintance. ** We will see if 
tbat is so, ** I mentally replied, and started down the 
ladder to see if the negative was that of a young man, 
it being impossible to do that in the dark-room. 

I held the negative up to the light; it was that of a 
young man under thirty, smooth of face and freckled. 

**Mr. S ,'* said I, *'here is a good subject; I will 

go over this one very carefully and would,, like a pho- 
tograph made from it." As I had taken a couple of 
terms in pencil drawing and knew the instructions 
perfectly for retouching I performed my task with 
considerable skill, and obtained the desired picture. 

The same evening I called again on my lady friend, 
bent on testing the truth of the words I had * * inspi- 
rationally " received. I mentioned her friend, asking 
if she could, beyond any question, identify a picture 
of him. She answered that it would be impossible to 
make any mistake, **But why do you ask?" **Do 
you recognize this?" I asked, handing her the pho- 
tograph. **It is he," she exclaimed, ** Whe^re did yoii 
get it?** My answer satisfied her that the picture 
established her friend's identity and that his condi- 
tion was one far removed from " everlasting woe. " 

Perhaps the most contemptible and despicable doc- 
trine that ever afflicted mankind is that of an undying 
hell of fiery torment for all who decline to accept the 
gospel of ** faith and forgiveness," however moral or 
spiritually-minded they may be. 

The gospel of negation is as destructive to hope and 
joy as the gospel of fear — and as silly. Against these 
two erroneous extremes psychic attainments, as spirit- 
ual gifts, pile up mountains of incontrovertible facts 
accessible to every truth-seeking spirit. 

Man is constantly animated, through the needs and 
desires of his material body, to acquire such earthly 
things as satisfy the wants of his physical senses. 
The Earth is, therefore, the planet of Acquisitiveness. 
The exercise of this acqmsvt\Netife%'& \^ m\-^\s&^Svft.^ ^^st 



30 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

modified by the Interior Planets (their orbits being 
inside that of the Earth and therefore nearer the Sun), 
Mercury governing Motion and Venus ruling Desire. 

The five senses employed in the action of life come 
under and correspond with the five Exterior Planets 
(their orbits being outside that of the Earth) — Mars, 
through nearness and force, the touch; Jupiter, through 
regulating participation, the taste; Saturn, through 
occult cognizance, the smell; Uranus, through harmo- 
nious vibration, the hearing; and Neptune, through 
distance and steadiness, the sight. 

A comparison of one's astral horoscope with the fol- 
lowing "Arrow of Sagittarius" table will show what 
particular spiritual gift should be aimed for and most 
likely attained through psychic development: 



« A «r«^ ^ . . . \ Mercury. .Motum 

EARTH.. -Acgwmiu'encM -^ „ ^ ^ . 

( Venus Desi^-e 



Mars Feding 

Jupiter . . . Tasking 
Saturn ,.,8mdling 
Uranus . . .Hearing 
Neptune.. Scctn^f 



There is a wide difference between Mystic and Psy- 
chic development. The word Mystic means one who 
holds to esoteric truth and embodies it in symbols, 
rites and allegorical writings. Mystics are profound 
students of Nature and her laws, the mathematical 
sciences, and some cult of philosophic thought. The 
word Psychic means one who senses material things 
astrally and astral things materially, psychic experi- 
ence calling for reciprocal action between the senses 
of the material body and the corresponding spiritual 
senses of the soul or astral body. The Mystic there- 
fore exercises Intelligence in investigation, induction 
and intuition, while the Psychic exercises Sense in 
attraction, perception and inspiration. It follows 
that one may be a Mystic without being a Psychic or 
a Psychic without being a Mystic. A Mystic is very 
often a Psychic hut the Psychic is rarely a Mystic. 



\ 

THE ASTRAL BROTHERHOOD. 



AN INSPIRATIONAL CONCEPTION. 



\ A Message from the Stars— The Symbolic Consteila- 

tion— Recital of a Wonderful Experience. 

While preparing the title-page of ''Agrippa'fe Natural 
Magic" I received, inspirationally, an announcement 
that the Astral Brothet"hood of Magic would give me 
a chapter devoted to the Magic Mirror with which to 
conclude the volume, and that I should insert the fol- 
lowing on the title-page in such form as I saw proper: 



By Direction of the Brotherhood of Magic : 

THE MAGIC MIRROR, 
, An Inspirational Message to the Mystics of Earth 
Containing Full Instructions on Its Make and Use. 



I did not desire to do this as I knew but little about 
the Magic Mirror and I wap apprehensive lest the 
technical names of the necessary materials or partic- 
ular directions for making, magnetizing and using it 
might be defective in some way, and I so expressed 

myself. Then came the direction: '*Goto S ; he 

will, without asking, give you full instructions as to the 
proper materials and how to correctly make and mag- 
netize the Mirror. You .will then feel satisfied to an- 
nounce the chapter on the title-page as we direct and 
in such manner as you may desire. ' ' 

Mr. S , I found later, had investigated the sub- 

^*ect very thoroughly. He had procured everything 
pertaining to Magic M|rrors the mystic world afforded 
and had developed in its use. I could not have been 
sent to a better informed or more practical person on 
the subject, even had I gone to India. 

I called on Mr. S -, according to the irLS^v:^lNRrMJ^^ 

directions I had received, and, ai\.« \X3kfc >asi^^ 's.^^sa^ 






82 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

greetings and without my broaching the subject to 
him in the least, he leaned back in his office chair and 
commenced to talk about the Magic Mirror. He gave 
the proper dimensions of the glass, how it should be 
flawless, symmetrical in its concavity and one never 
used for other purposes; such a glass, he said, might 
be procured at an art or drug store, or photographer; 
that any manner of dealer in glass could procure it if 
not in stock. He gave a list of the necessary materials 
used in making the Mirror, saying that Lake Superior 
asphaltum, a compact bitumen in its native state, was 
the best substance known for coating the glass, pos- 
sessing every necessary property for that purpose — 
being readily magnetized, giving a smooth, fine surface 
and making an opaque, black coating on the back of 
the concave glass — namely, on its convex side. That 
if Lake Superior asphaltum could not be readily pro- 
cured any other first-class prepared asphaltum would 
answer the purpose. 

It was then explained to me how everything used in 
the construction of the Mirror should be new and 
clean; how the day and surroundings should be cheer- 
ful and pleasant; how the operator should be fitted 
and prepared for his work, and, finally, how the Mir- 
ror should be magnetized, cared for and used. These 

last directions of Mr. S were very specific and 

precise, and are all carefully embodied in this work. 

I now felt certain that the object of the Brotherhood 
would experience no set-back and that when the time 
should come for the proposed chapter (which would be 
when nothing remained to be done except its reception 
and type composition) I would prove equal to the inspi- 
rational task and that my unseen companions would 
not fail to do their part. 

I say '* companions, " and such they were; for, since 

the first of that year — when I abandoned slavish condi- 

fjons that I might be free to follow the path indicated 

Ar ^Ae Brotherhood of Eternal Life, Spiritual light 



A PUBLISHER ON THIRTY CENTS. 38 

and Divine Love — they had never deserted me, led me 
astray or deceived me in any manner, but gave evidence 
of their existence in many ways. I relate here only 
the more important experiences which followed. 

At the moment of freedom I was asked, * * What will 
you do now?" I replied that I would be **a publisher 
inside of a year, *' and that the way to that end would 
be found. *'They'' had said, ** Stay here and we leave 
you; come with us and you will be a publisher inside 
of a year." The Chicago City Directory for 1898 is 
evidence of the truth of their prophecy. 

I started to **find the way " with a total cash capi- 
tal of 30 cents. Inside of three days it amounted to 
several dollars which came as the result of faithfully 
obeying the law of Spiritual Economics — the law that 
the Divine Master so beautifully portrays in the para- 
ble of the Good Samaritan — I was on '* the way. " 

To become a publisher it was necessary to acquire a 
** plant'' of printing material, however modest, that 
could be used for book composition. When the time 
came to acquire such a plant I got it by setting the 
type for an 800-page book, taking my pay partly in the 
material, at cost, and drawing a i;7'o rata balance on 
each page as the book progressed, so that the plant 
was paid for when the work was finished. 

Every executive move made to accomplish all this 
was suggested or shaped by my astral friends. Their 
instructions as to what and when to do always came 
when necessary. It was not always a path of roses, for 
it is by continuous trial that we become strong and 
self-reliant, and only through trial do we demonstrate 
what we may do, or our fitness for any special work. 

Shortly after my instruction in the make, use and 
care of the Magic Mirror, a friend called to see me, a 

Mr. L , to whom I related my experience with Mr. 

S . I also told him that he would be connected, 

in some way, with the proposed chapter. Mr. L ^ 

a few days after this, procured the xiece^^^t^ wxaX^tSj^^s. 



84 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

- with which to make the Mirror, and brought them to 
me, he said, under positive astral instructions, which 
mentally, or inspirationally, came to him as follows: 
** Get those articles for the Mirror and take them over 
to your friend — the day aiid aspects are just right for 
commencing the work. ' * 

Planetary Aspects when Making the Mirror. 

Here was a point that, so far, had been overlooked 
or withheld — the planetary aspects under which the 
Mirror should be made. The laws of personal envi- 
ronment and mystic development will, however, as I 
learned later, invariably coincide with the proper con- 
ditions and planetary aspects under which any Mystic 
will make a Mirror best adapted to himself. Envi- 
ronments and events will, therefore, lead to the precise 
time to commence the work. Seeming difficulties in 
procuring the necessary materials, seeming hindrances 
of a social nature, unusual events which apparently 
hasten or retard the work, are but material indexes of 
astral laws which compel the operator to commence 
and finish his Mirror **ON time '* and under the most 
favorable planetary aspects for his particular Mirror. 
This is the reason why *'the wise Mystic makes his 
own Mirror, " and why those commercially made are of 
no value whatever except to put money into the pockets 
of self-seeking charlatans. 

Making the Mirror for a Neophyte. 

Any Master who is well instructed in making the 
Mirror may, however, make one, on application, for a 
Neophyte after he has received the Neophyte's chosen 
date for inaugurating the work. Special instructions, 
contained in a Mirror Letter of Advice, in regard to the 
Neophyte *s Mirror, should accompany it. This Mirror 
Letter of Advice should contain such matters as per- 
t^jD to the Neophyte's astral make-up in connection 
tritli his Mirror. These matters are detecmlned from a 



MIRROR LETTERS OF ADVICE. 35 

Heliocentric or Astral Horoscope of the applicant for 
the Mirror, and the application should contain the date 
of birth, gfiving year month, day (hour or part of day 
where possible), and place of birth. The sex, calling^, 
and three important events in the applicant's personal 
history should also be noted. These three events of 
personal history should be, as far as possible, the first 
three most prominent turning points or events of life, 
and are used for the purpose of perfecting* the horo- 
scope through a rectification of the applicant's ** Line 
of Life," a rectification of the horoscope original with 
myself in 1893, and which may be found on page 16. 

Mirror Letters of Advice. 

* 

The Mirror Letter of Advice should also contain 
such special, personal and '* inspirational " directions 
in regard to the Mirror and its use and re-magnetiza- 
tion as the Master may "receive'* while engaged in its 
construction. The date sent to the Master for com- 
mencing the work is the exact time when the appli- 
cant 's horoscope should be cast, and makes, by reason 
of such specified time, an astral connection between the 
Master and the applicant. This is absolutely neces- 
sary in properly making the Mirror, as from this astral 
connection will spring or radiate the proper times and 
seasons of the work. The applicant should send his 
best thought and sympathy to the Master for about 
three hours — the hour noted for the work and those 
immediately before and after such special set day and 
hour — being with him **in the spirit," and carefully 
excluding all worry and selfish motives by aspiring 
toward the Ideal Life. 

The Magical " Master's Totem." 

The applicant should also firmly hold, in his left 
hand, during these three hours, a ** Master's Totem," 
which will be sent him, for the purpose of establish- 
ing sympathetic vibration with the Ma.^^<et» "^^nk^ 



86 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

this is established a peculiar ma^etic thrill will make 
itself manifest for a few moments, very sweet, gentle 
and penetrating, and accompanied with a slight per- 
fume of flowers. These are sometimes, though rarely, 
seen, ••vision-like," with the ** thrill' ' and perfume. 
This sympathetic vibration (or its manifestion) is not 
the "astral connection" before noted, but comes as a 
sequence to it, and being both spiritual and material 
in its nature it is a combination corresponding to soul 
force. This soul force is a projection of physical aura 
or magnetism, and is that principle with which the 
Mirror is magnetized. When we depart this life our 
soul, or body of the spirit, is seen to be this magnetic 
life aura, which spirit body assumes and conforms to 
the ideals, virtues and desires of the indwelling spirit. 
The *• thrill " is evidence that the aura of the Master 
and that of the Neophjrte is in harmonic touch and 
relationship, which speaks extra well for the work in 
hand. Should the Master, however, be prevented from 
casting the figure of the horoscope at the specified 
time it is evidence that **the trtie time '* has not yet 
arrived, and he should write to the applicant to set a 
new date for commencing the work, and, should this 
date fail in turn, still another date should be set, and 
so on until the true date is found, which will come in- 
side seven such dates if the Mirror is to be made. The 
reason for this is because each date will fall under a 
different planet, the first being Mercury and the last 
that of Neptune. Only one date should be set at a 
time. This applies, also, to the Mystic who fails to 
commence his work for seven- successive times. He 
should lay aside the project for one full year, during 
which time he should strive unceasingly for the Ideal 
Mystic Life, when he may undertake the work anew. 
A Master should never make but one Mirror for a per- 
son, the death of the first being a sign that another 
should not be created except under the ^•inspirational*' 
directionm of the ilstral Brotherhood. 



USES OF THE MAGIC MIRROR. 87 

Mr. L , though a fine mystic, is a very positive 

man by nature, and he hesitated somewhat when he 
was directed to " get those articles" for me as he had 
intended to do something else, and the mental mes- 
sage came so abruptly and unexpected that he all but 
refused to lay aside his business to do so. Reflect- 
ing a moment, however, on the reason given, that the 
day and aspects were just, right for commencing the 
work, he acceded to the unusual call and procured 
the necessary materials for the Mirror. His appear- 
ance, at about 3 p. m., was a pleasant surprise to me 
and an added proof of the solicitude and earnestness 
of our astral friends. The day was an ideal one for 
the purpose; ** conditions " were perfect, and we laid 
aside our work and gave the glass its first coat of as- 
phaltum. The Brothers desired to see a Mirror made 

under the directions I had received from Mr. S , 

and also that I should have all needed experience in 
the work so that there would be no failure of descrip- 
tion when the time should come to receive what they 
desired to publish on the subject. When it was finished 
I was competent to write all necessary instructions. 

Other inspirations, as follows, came also: 

That the Magic Mirror was the chosen instrument of com- 
munication of the Astral Brotherhood^ and that through it — 

(1) They would forever maJce communication a fixed fact 
bettoeen the World of Sense and the World of Spirit 

(5) They would give to Worthy Mystics all such necessary 
instructions as pertain to the Work of the Brotherhood. 

(3) They would restore any Work of Astral Knowledge 
which might be lost or in any way destroyed. 

(i) They would give^ under any natural or social crisis^ 
such specific directions and admce as might be necessary. 

(6) They would transmit, from time to time^ to Mankind 
at large^ those essential Vital Truths which herald the suC" 
cessive steps of the coming of God's £%ngdicym. oix^. l^ojtVK^ 



38 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Reflection on these things gave me a realization of 
the very great importance and necessity of making 
known the means of direct communication with the 
Astral Brotherhood. Such communication appeared 
helpful in the development and education of the indi- 
vidual Mystic, and potent for the happiness and pro- 
gress of Humanity. Desiring to ** dress" the message 
as attractively as possible, I composed the following 
verse with which to head its chapter: 

A MESSAGE FROM THE STARS. 

I stood at eventime. The never-ending' plain 
All empty looked and void. Yet, as I gazed ag-ain, 
An army bivouacked. Unnumbered points of lig-ht 
Bespoke a force Supreme — invincible for Right. 

While Mystics, as a rule, are thinking people, and 
will readily see and understand the symbolic meaning 
mf my little verse, still it will not be out of place to 
give my original conception of it as follows: 

*^ A Message frotn live Stars " refers, of course, to the 
Message of the Astral Brotherhood. 

^^ I stood at eventime/' Civilization at the close of 
the present Cycle of Self. The Sun of Mystic Intel- 
ligence has set. Spiritual light is slowly fading into 
a night of greed and self. Ignorance and vice throw 
their darksome shadows over the earth, and deepening 
gloom portents a night of universal darkness. 

**77f€ never-ending plain'' — The author directs his 
eyes from earth to the infinite dome above. 

■ 

^' All empty looked and void." There, also, is dark- 
ness, though not deep. In the gray vault no ray of 
light 18 visible. Hope is fast being lost in despair. 

*' F(^, as I gazed again, *' — The author searches the 
•* never-ending plain" anew, seeking for some ray of 
light amid the deepening pall of night. 

** An ai^iy bivouacked. " Gradually, one by one, come 
points of liffht, as of camp-fires being lighted. 



THE MYSTIC STAR PAGE. 89 

** Unnumbered points of light "— The stars of the 
infinite realms now appear in all their glory. Con- 
stellations gem the vault of heaven and crown it o'er 
as with an arch of fire. The Astral Brotherhood make 
themselves manifest to the Mystics of Earth. 

^^ Bespoke a force Supreme — " These are invited to 
enlist against selfish greed and cruel, despotic power. 
Human advancement necessitates Astral Intelligence. 
In this the Brotherhood is Supreme. This they will 
give. They aim only at Divine ends. 

''Invincible for Right' \ The future Social State — 
God's Kingdom on Earth — ^where truth conquers error 
and ** all tears are wiped away. " 

About the first of December I got a man to help me 
in the work of typesetting, so as to finish the book in 
time for the holiday trade. The day before the copy 

for the Mirror chapter was due Mr. L called on 

me in the afternoon. He asked me if I had the Mirror 
chapter written up. I replied, ** No; not a line. It will 
be written to-morrow, the day it will be set, as every- 
thing but the preface will be finished to-day.'' Note 
that I had some help, that the work could not wait, and 
that the concluding matter was unwritten. The work 
was being conducted at my home in a small room off 
a large one used as a library and sitting-room, where 
I done all my writing. My ** printing office" and edi- 
torial ** sanctum" were therefore accessible at night. 

When the above day was over everything was **up" 
to the proposed " Message to Mystics," about which I 
then entertained no doubt whatever. As the matter 
came out I found that the Mirror chapter would have 
to start on an even-numbered or left-hand page of the 
book. This I did not like as it was a poor typograph- 
ical '* make-up.^' To remedy it I decided to fill in this 
left-hand page with a preface to the Message. 

That evening I went in the " office" to set the prefa- 
tory page. My man had gone \iom% ^xA \ ^^^ 't;Sss^^ 



40 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

and undisturbed. Conditions for inspiration were per- 
fect but I was hardly aware of such phenomena until 
the **Star-page" was completed. I found, first, that 
the verse I had composed to head the chapter would 
answer my purpose, so I set that and centered it in 
the same manner as I had twice done before on the 
book, by using excerpts to utilize otherwise blank and 
desolate pages. The verse, however, appeared insuf- 
ficient, but its title, *' A Message from the Stars," sug- 
gested, or seemed to suggest, an arch of stars at the top 
of the page. I had plenty of these, both light and 
dark, having got them for the Agrippian Cross, and I 
proceeded to build the arch. 

Then the idea came to have the arch of stars math- 
ematically express certain mystic things. This could 
be done through the alternate use, or numbering, of the 
light and dark stars; or by points, lines, groups and 
angles. The first thing which occurred to me to put 
in the arch was the number 142857, using light and 
dark stars to do so. I followed this with the right- 
angled triangle, symbolized by three lines containing, 
respectively, three, four and five stars — these numbers 
being the least that will form the above geometrical 
figure. I then completed my astral arch with thirteen 
stars more, representing the thirteen points of the 
Zodiac — the Central Sun and his surrounding Twelve 
Celestial Houses; the three dark stars symbolizing the« 
Winter Quarter, when the Earth is North of the Sun. 
I made a ''proof of my work and saw it was finished 
in that it, as a whole, prefigured The Mystic Era and 
The Brotherhood of the Stars. As I then stood, a 
test — silent, clear, certain, absolute— came to me: 

Do you know what you have there? Count the stars oon- 
tained in the arch and you will find fifty 'two — the solar year 
represefnted by its fifty-two weeks. Twenty-six of these are 
light and twenty-six dark^ yielding the Book of Hermes or 
Toth'-'^ho is Thot or Thought-^the Book of Intelligmos. 
Icaonted the MtaxB and smew. 



THE PRIMARY NUMBERS. 41 

"fir** • •^^^^^ 

it if it it ii 

it it it it it it it 

it it it 

it it it it 

<r it it it it 

<r it it 

it it it 

it it it 

it it it it 

** To every thing there is a Season, and a Time to every pur- 
pose under Heaven. ''—Ecclesiastes iii, 1. 

INITIATIVE EXPOSITION. 



Number of Endless Evolution— Triune Embodiments of 
the Omniric Word—Zodiac and Sun. 

The Stars of the above Arch are, first of all, numer- 
ical. As all notation must start with the unit or one 
so this Star Series of Mystic Numbers starts with one 
light star for 1. Now, 1 is not the basis of all numbers 
simply because 1 is first used in notation, nor for the 
reason that all numbers may be divided by 1. All 
that exists enters into and forms the Infinite Cosmos, 
which, through its Unity, may be represented as 1, but 
when we find in the Cosmos a Chain of Infinite Dual- 
ities — as manifested in sex, the polarities of substa^^'^e, 
and the repelling and attracting conditions of the Law 
of Life — ^we do not discover two ones but one two, or 
that which exists only as a two or duality. 

This TWO cannot be a mere condition of the one, for 
while Cosmic Eodatence may be sjrmbolized by one, as 
being, Cosmic Motion is first symbolized by TWO, as life. 
As Cosmic Life is self -existent, infinite and eternal, so 
is the TWO, and it is, therefore, the type of the life 
action or equilibrivm of the Cosmos. 

In the Science of Number, duality exists as Odd and 
Even. Odd numbers and 'ffiv^n. u'qxs^^t^ ^x:^ ^^a^^^s^^ 



42 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

necessary to each other. By analogy, all dualities, of 
which Nature brings to view an unbroken chain, are 
necessary complements of each other. Thus a line has 
two ends, and we cannot create or destroy either one 
without also creating or destro}dng its complement. 
A horizontal proves the existence of a perpendicular, 
for if there were no level there could be no upright. 
The plumb and level are co-ordinate tools. Duality 
proves the existence of a diameter to every circle, and 
also the existence of a circle to every diameter. The 
passive proves the existence of the positive, and the 
Material World the existence of the Spiritual World. 

Nature, as eternal substance, is permeated with im- 
mortal spirit; her embodiments, as passive forms, are 
endued with positive motions; as an immeasurable cir- 
cle of being she has an infinite diameter of action; as 
a cosmic cube her astral dimensions are eternally vivi- 
fied by omnipresent power, justice and goodness; as 
an illimitable sphere she unceasingly revolves on an 
axis of Infinite Intelligence. 

Thus Duality exists throughout the Cosmos. 

Three is a child of One and Two, their union being 
necessary to create it. Its dissolution returns it to 
them. It EXISTS and lives through the joining of the 
EXISTING ONE and LIVING TWO. To retain individual- 
ity it must forever embody them as a third ego. It is 
properly symbolized by a right-angle, known as the 
square, an instrument born of the union of the upright 
point with the level line. Three is, .therefore, the 
number of creation, or that which is created. 

Perfect analogy and correspondence reveals a third 
primary, self -existing, creative number. This number 
stands in the same relation to Two as Two does to One, 
as — One, twice one or Two, twice two or Pour. 

Four represents the angles of a square. Multiplied 
by Two it gives the cube, the ninth or central point of 
wMch ia obtMlncd when we add One. 



LANGUAGE OP THE INFINITE. 46 

as the last two steps of the rule, that S65 be subtracted 
and 116 immediately added when he could have sim- 
plified the operation by subtracting 250 only? It was 
the undoubted purpose of Franklin to leave indisputa- 
ble evidence of a mystic system of knowledge founded 
on the Cosmos, Mathematics and Geometry, by which 
the silent seeker of Nature's mysteries might recog- 
nize, lay hold on and construct the fabric of which it 
is a fragment, just as the skeleton of a bird may be 
reconstructed by an adept in ornithology. The sci- 
ence of astral mathematics has existed on the Earth 
for mjniads of years. It is in the hands of no one cult 
or sect or organization. Individiuil mystics only have 
access to it, and guard and transmit it only to worthy 
and well qualified successors. It is embodied in the 
rites, ceremonies, legends, allegories, symbols and les- 
sons of secret fraternities and religions that exist and 
flourish more especially in the north temperate zone 
and who also withstand every test of truth and time. 
As the general necessity of its revealment arises it 
will be given to mankind, and not otherwise. 

Number is the Language of the Infinite. Through- 
out the Cosmos the science of number must eternally 
be the same. All that exists— every atom, dimension, 
motion, form, or manifestation — ^is capable of being 
represented by, and has perfect correspondence with 
number. The individual number of any specified Ego 
will disclose every change of such Ego 's existence by 
the numerical action of such number. 

Take any number, reverse it to obtain a second num- 
ber, subtract one number from the other, and the dig- 
its of the remainder will always, by addition, reduce 
into 9, and the remainder itself will always be 9 or a 
multiple of 9. This operation is a spiral movement of 
the numbers employed, and the 9, therefore, represents 
a circle. An eternal spiral motion may be properly 
represented by an endless row of nines, each 9 sjrmbol- 
iiing one complete revolutlou of tli^ %'^^x^\&ss^^sc&Kc^.x 



46 THE MVSTIC THESAURUS. 

The relation between this endless spiral motion ind 
all other motions must be determined by such a scale 
number as will forever measure the cycles or complete 
revolutions of all other motions, itselif included. Such 
a scale is found in the relation of the sum of the Pri- 
mary Numbers — Seven — to the number representing a 
complete circle — ^Nine. The scale number so found 
will measure the complete revolution of every Cosmic 
factor, and as every revolution has correspondence 
with 9 so the measure must have correspondence also; 
so that when the digits of the scale number shall have 
given 9 for depth, 9 for width, and 9 for length, then 
such cycle will be complete and a new cycle begin. 
Thus infinite evolution is measured off by such number 
into well defined periods or eras. The Cosmic Scale 
is contained in the first four lines of the Arch of Stars: 



t^ • • • • i:.- -iV • • • 

it • • * * 

^ t: 'Cz ii -Ct 

• • • • it it if 

'The very hairn of your head are all numbered.** — Luke xii, 7. 

The Great Astral Number. 

We find, first of all, in the above part of the Arch 
the Primary Numbers — 1, 2 and 4 — as 142, which is the 
first half of the Scale Number or exponent of the life 
action of the Cosmos. The full number is symbolized 
by one light star for 1, four dark stars for 4, two light 
stars for 2, eight dark stars for 8, five light stars for 5, 
and seven dark stars for 7, giving the number 14^857, 
the Astral Measure of Cosmic Action. 

Great Cosmic Sun, Zodiac and Cube. 

The sum of the powers of the twenty-two letters of 

the Hebrew Cabala is 1495, and the digits of this num* 

bersLdd Into 19, which is the number of dark stare in 



NUkBER OF THE INFINITE. 47 

this part of the Arch, and is also the cabalistic num- 
ber of the Sun. The square of 19 is 361, which, minus 
1, gives the degrees of the Zodiac. 

The remaining eight light stars symbolize the Celes- 
tial Cube of the Cosmos. 

The Master of Pentacles Is a Pyramid. 

The first star line shows the One of Light raised and 
exalted as the head of the corner — the number of stars 
in the line being 10, corresponding to the Yod of Life. 

The second line has five dark stars and the third 
line five light stars, representing the pentacles of ma- 
terial and spiritual power in the hands of the Master. 

The fourth line has seven dark stars in two groups; 
the group of four signifying foundation or establish- 
ment, and the group of three signifying erection or 
strength. Pour is a square and three is a trine; erect- 
ing a trine on each side of a square builds a pyramid. 

How Nature and Number Evolve 142857. 

Seven, being the sum of the Primary Numbers, is a 
diameter of all number. A diameter of 7 has a cir- 
cumference, in whole numbers, of 22. The action of 
life is a dividing of this circumference of 22 by its 
diameter of 7, resulting as: 3.142857,142857,142857 od,— 
the residuum eternally repeating 142857. 

Seven is the number of the week days, the planets, 
the colors, and the notes of music. It therefore cor- 
responds to Nature as her primary harmonic scale. 
When numbers of seven places are made to represent 
time, space, matter, law, motion and form, their exact 
correspondence to each other will be shown by such 
numbers. Seven, therefore, interprets Nature. 

Nine is the ultimate power of one place, 99 is the 
ultimate power of two places, 999 of three places, and 
so on. The Infinite Cosmos must therefore be repre- 
sented by a series of nines of infinite place^^. *^Vsfc. 
Number of the Infinite is tYiexeioxe ^^^^^^^^^ ^. 



48 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Hence, by reason of these properties of 7 and 9, to 
numerically interpret Infinite Nature is to divide its 
number by 7. This gives us, again, the Number of 
Infinite Evolution : 142857, 142857, 142857 od. 

There are seven dimensions to a cube, for while its 
depth, length and width will give the sum of its con- 
tents they do not give its greatest dimensions except by 
geometry. The seven cubical dimensions are: One 
perpendicular. Two horizontal, and Pour diagonal, or 
from the four corners of any one of its six faces to 
their further opposite comers. 

There are nine points to a cube — its eight comers 
and its center, the only point where its seven dimen- 
sions intersect each other. 

The x:ube itself is an Ego or One. This One, plus its 
nine points, shows the cube to be a Raised One or 10. 
By dividing this Raised One by its seven dimensions 
we obtain 1.42857,142857,142857 od. 

The permutation of 7 is 5040. This, as the area of 
a circle, will give, in whole numbers, one with a diam- 
eter of 80 and a circumference of 252. By dividing 
its degrees, 360, by Us circumference, 252, we obtain 
1.42857, 142857,142857 OD. 

The Earth and Planets- give the eight great bodies 
that revolve around our Sun. The sum of their con- 
junctions is 28, or 4 times 7, and, starting them in line 
together at the first point of Aries, their several solar 
movements cause conjunctions that give, in the sums 
of their periods, the number 142857,142857,142857 oo. 

This number, 142857, is the numerical expression of 
life, light and love. It is a number formed by the sum 
of the primary numbers working or evolving through 
all other number. The three primaries represent the 
Infinite Principles of Power, Goodness and JusncB. 
They exist through all time, i>ermeate all space, and 
act In all matter. They fill all apace ^th lights all 



MAGIC SQUARE OF THE COSMOS. 49 

time with Life, and all matter with Love. Their com- 
bined action constantly expresses this number. Every 
motion is a part of its infinite movement and every 
form is a part of its infinite shape. It is the number 
of Eternal Evolution of the Infinite Cosmos. Thus it 
is made evident that * * to every thing there is a seasorif 
and a time to every purpose under Heaven. '' 

1 

4 7 



8 

There are many peculiar properties connected with 
143857. Spread it on the points of Solomon's Seal, as 
above, and the digits in opposition add into the Sun of 
the Seal— 9. It is a number including all the digits 
except 3, 6 or twice 3, and 9 or the square of 3; while it 
springs from the sum of three digits working through 
the square oi three, has six digits representing six 
points of culmination in each cycle of being, and can 
be resolved into nine, by addition, or divided by nine 
however transposed. Its digital pairs g^ve, succes- 
sively, two times 7, four times 7, and eight times 7 plus 
1, here a circumference correction. 

Magic Square of 142857. 

Multiplying 142857 by 7 gives, of course, 999,999, the 
original nines returning. To square 142857 is to mul- 
tiply it by itself, giving 20,408,122,449; to make a tme 
square of it we must multiply it six times, as it has six 
places, by digits whose quotients will not exceed six 
places. As multiplying it by 8 gives 1142856 (1 seem- 
ingly subtracted from the 7 and made the first digit), a 
quotient of seven places, and 7 returns the nines, the 
number must he multiplied, successively, by the first six 
digits to obtain the square. S\ie\i ^c^^x^ \s» ^^^«:?^J^^ 



50 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

as it must harmonize with the numerical action of this 
number as it obtains throughout Nature. 

Multiplying it by the first six digits gives a " magic 
square, ' ' every line and column of which contains all 
the original digits of the number. The sum of each 
line and column is 27, or three times 9; also four times 
7, minus 1, here a diameter correction. 

The Magic Square of 142857 is as follows: 

Multiplied by 1 gives 15873 nines, or. . . .1 4 2 8 5 7 

Multiplied by 2 gives 31746 nines, or.. . .2 8 5 7 14 

Multiplied by 3 gives 47619 nines, or .... 4 2 8 5 7 1 

Multiplied by 4 gives 63492 nines, or .... 5 7 1 4 2 8 

Multiplied by 5 gives 79365 nines, or .... 7 1 4 2 8 5 

Multiplied by 6 gives 95238 nines, or.. ..8 5 7 14 2 

The lines of the square show external rotation only. 

The columns show internal transposition only, and 
the digits are so transj^osed that each one always adds 
into 9 with its co-ordinately placed digit. 
. The whole number of nines in the square is 333,333. 

The total of the square is 2,999,997, in which 7 goes 
exactly 428,571 times, and 9, of course, 333,333 times. 

142857 Squares the Circle. 

The square, being in perfect accord with every part 
of the Cosmos, must elementally hold within itself the 
solutiqn of every numerical problem of Nature, and is 
thus the Universal Solvent. It Squares the Circle: 

The sum of each line is 27, giving 162 as the sum of 
the six lines; and the columns, added in like manner, 
give 162 also. * The digital value of the square, there- 
fore, is twice 162, or 324. One-fourth of 324, or 81, is 
the diameter of a circle having an area of 5153. Pour 
times such area is 20612, which, used as a circumfer- 
ence, gives a circle having a diameter of 6561, a num- 
ber equal to 27 times 2J^3y the remaining three-fonrths 
of 324. As 20612 and 6561 are the only whole numbers 



THE FUTURE SOCIAL, STATE. 51 

that absolutely square the circle, as demonstrated by 
John A. Parker in 1851, the number 142857 fundament- 
ally squares the circle throughout the Cosmos. 

To recapitulate: Number derived from Magic 

Square of 142857 -^ 324 

Dividing 324 by 4, to obtain quadrature, gives . . 81-243 
Diameter of 81 gives a circle having an area of . . 5153 
Area of 5153, multiplied by 4, gives true Parker 

circumference of 20612 

Remaining three-fourths of 324 is a circumfer- 
ence of 243, which, multiplied by 27, the sum 
of each line and column of the square, gives 
square of 81, or true Parker diameter of 6561 

142857 

not only represents Cosmic Law, Infinite Motion and 
Eternal Evolution, but it also represents a future per- 
fect civilization — unfolded as the fruit of social prog- 
ress — the Kingdom of Divine Goodness on Earth. 

As the planets move in endless harmony with this 
great number — their series of cycles corresponding to 
its digits — so humanity must ever move. The coming 
Social State will obtain as the product of numerical 
evolution. Steadily and surely Humanity forges for- 
ward through successive eras of cycles of events that 
are indicated by and correspond with planetary cul- 
minations; and, in thus corresponding. Astral Law 
builds on eternal foundations the future true and per- 
fect Quadrature of Mankind, 

Faith and Hope are not vain — the morning dawns! 



Having considered the relation of 142857 to the cir- 
cle and its quadrature, it is proper that we should, at 
this place, also consider how that quadrature shows 
why a circle naturally has 360 degrees; which, being 
established, further shows that such division of the 
circle is not an arbitrary one, as \\a^ \i^^\i <^\\.^^ Osaxas^^^ 



52 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

The knowledge of absolutely determining the num- 
ber of degrees in a circle is most important as it dem- 
onstrates how the great Celestial Circle of the Zodiac 
is primarily divided by an absolute law. That there 
are 860 degrees in a circle is demonstrated as follows : 

Why the Zodiac has 360 Degrees. 

Starting with the Number of Initiation in the Mys- 
teries of the Source of Wisdom — nine — we square it 
and then use the resultant eighty-one as the diameter 
of a perfect and exact circle, each minute part of its 
circumference being equidistant from its central point, 
the diameter of eighty-one being therefore a true one 
at "Whatever angle it may intercept the circle's center. 
The area of this circle, having an unvarying diameter 
of 81, is found — ^by the John A. Parker demonstration 
of the Quadrature of the Circle — to be exactly 5153. 
A square inclosing this circle must be the square of 
of 81, or 6561. Now, from actual measurement, we 
know that the area of any true square, used as the 
diameter of a circle, will give one whose circumference 
is four times the area of such a circle as the square will 
inclose; or, stated inversely, four times the area of any 
true circle equals the circumference of another circle 
whose diameter is equal to the area of a square which 
will inclose the first circle, each side of which is equal 
to the diameter of the circle inclosed. Thrs we find 
that four times the area of a circle with 81 for a diam- 
eter, or 5153, equals 20612 for the circumference and 
6561 for the diameter of a new circle, which, springing 
from the Master Digit — Nine — possesses in its diame- 
ter and circumference the only whole numbers through 
which it may be absolutely quadrated — 656] and 20612. 
Now for the relation of 360 to this circle which can be 
quadrated: 

First, we take turlce the area of a circle having 81 as 

its diameter, or 10306 (instead of 6153) as the area of 

another circle whose diameter is required. Following 



THE GREAT WORK. 58 

the rule, we multiply by four and obtain 41224 as the 
circumference and 13122 as the diameter of another 
circle. Now, 13122 is the area of a square inclosing a 
circle of 10306 area, with a square root of 114.51111 od, 
and an absolutely exact circumference of 360. 

This circle of 10306 area — ^being just twice the area 
of a circle having 81 as its diameter and 5153 as area — 
will inclose a square, having a side of 81, so nicely 
that the square will just exactly move arourtd inside it as 
water may move around inside a glass. We have, on 
each side of this figure a chord of 81 and an arc of 90, 

which gives a proportion of 9 of chord to 10 of arc. 

» 

This is the true relation of the square to a circle as 
constructed in the Pyramid of Cheops many hundreds 
of years ago. 

The Divine Law stands revealed again. Truly, God 
geometrizes continuously, and men blindly follow in 
the path heretofore marked out. 



if i^ if 

if if if if 

if if if if if 

*' There is nothing ooverea^ that shall not be revealed; neither 
^id, that shall not be known.'' — Luke xii, 2. 

The Work of Initiation. 

The next three lines of the arch show the twelve 
stars above. They indicate the twelve steps of the 
path of initiation, and also form the astral zodiac of 
the neophyte. Its quarters are denoted by the four 
dark stars; they also show the four dark limbs of the 
astral cross of trial on which the neophjrte is twelve 
times crucified. The eight light stars signify the cor- 
ners of the astral stone the neophjrte becomes as a 
Master of the eight potencies. SwcJct ^'«^\Tv\3aaN. ^^^^jcir. 



54 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

is a cubing of the celestial sphere. This is the ** great 
work." The three lines formed by the stars show 
the three great attainments — the ** Universal Solvent" 
of Law, the "Philosopher's Stone" of Truth, and the 
"Elixir of Life" of Immortality — and these, in turn, 
represent the three dimensions of the Spiritual Stone 
wrought by the Astral Adept. 

The Great Pyramid. 

The first line represents the trinity formed by the 
two and the one. Prom its symbol, the leaf of clover, 
to the **I AM" this trinity manifests its existence. 

The geometrical symbol of the trinity is a triangle. 
Squaring the trinity produces three triangles, and by 
uniting these their base forms a fourth. These four 
triangles are symbolical of the four quarters and four 
**triplicities" of the Zodiac, each of which has three 
houses. We may represent the Zodiac, therefore, by 
such a geometrical figure as four triangles will form. 
Such a figure is a pyramid, two sides of which are hid 
and two seen as we draw near to one. Hence the two 
dark and two light stars next seen. The Great Pyra- 
mid of Cheops was the first one built. Unlike other 
human structures it had no preceding types to mark 
the steps of its evolution, but sprung, full bom, into 
being, upon the exact astral navel of the Earth. It is 
the largest pyramid, as its foundations, most wonder- 
fully oriented, embrace thirteen acres of area; and it 
is the only perfect pyramid, in that its height is to its 
perimeter as the radius of a circle to its circumference. 
Its mathematical equations give the Earth's circum- 
ference and diameter, its mean distance from the Sun 
(91,887,497 miles), and other like solar measurements, 
proving that its originators knew of and demonstrated 
the Heliocentric character of our Solar System. 

The five light stars which form the next line repre- 
sent pentagramic man and his five material and astral 
senses, the five points of the pyramid, and the five 



LETTERS ARE NUMBERS. 55 

points of the Celestial Cross of the Zodiac. The cross 
refolded into a cube gives twelve edges, the sum of all 
the stars, which represent the twelve meridian lines of 
the Zodiac. To become a pure and perfect Master Cube 
these twelve edges must be built up by mastering the 
twelve gates of astral development. 

The Three Worlds. 

The number three represents the Inherent Divinity 
of the Infinite Cosmos; the number four represents the 
four quarters of the natural universe, and the number 
five represents the pentagramic figure of man. There 
are, therefore, three great worlds — the Natural World, 
whose supreme manifestation is Light; the Human 
World, whose supreme manifestation is Life; and the 
Divine World, whose supreme manifestation is Love. 
In correspondence with these worlds are three great 
tongues, the letters of which, as numbers and symbols, 
express the values and truths of the several worlds to 
which they are related. The alphabet of each tongue 
is, therefore, an interpreting measure or Cabala. It 
follows from this that there are three great Cabalas 
by which the motions, forms and truths of the Human, 
Natural and Divine Worlds may be measured, inter- 
preted and understood. 

Alphabets are Measuring Scales. 

Motion is numerical and the operation of number is 
motion. Motion is, therefore, a mathematical process. 
Motion results in form and form results from motion. 
Form is, therefore, a mathematical sequence. Con- 
crete forms are symbols and symbols are concrete 
forms. Symbols represent, therefore, concrete num- 
bers. A series of such symbols, like the Letters of a 
Language^ form a numerical scale by which all things 
such language generically relates to may be measured 
and therefrom determined. 

Lettersi being mathematicaiU^ ^-^oV^^^^firr^^Q^QaBa^sawstib^ 



66 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

All letters are individual characters, characters are 
concrete symbols, symbols are distinctive numbers, 
numbers are absolute principles. Every letter caba- 
listically represents a principle of cosmic law. 
' To measure anything is to determine its unknown 
number by known numbers. To find its relation or 
correspondence with other like classified things is to 
determine its number's analogy with their numbers. 

Correspondence not Identification. 

A mere correspondence between a person's number 
and some Ego's great number does not 'jgront him to be 
the Ego indicated by such number, for correspondence 
and identification are different things. Identification 
necessarily includes correspondence, but correspond- 
ence does not necessarily include identification. Only 
that pride that invokes certain fall arrogates to itself 
the mantle Of the Great Master. Beware of this pride; 
it is sure destruction and spiritual suicide to attempt 
to mock the Divine. Christ came first to establish his 
kingdom. For such purpose he hid in faithful breasts 
the Leaven of Love. When it shall have leavened all 
races and tongues into one Brotherhood of Humanity 
his kingdom will be established. To his kingdom, so 
established, he will come again as one able, faithful 
and true. The kingdom is what he taught us to aspire 
and seek for; to become possessors of it and thereby 
establish it **on Earth as it is in Heaven." These 
words can have only one meaning. It is clear, concise 
and comprehensive: The Kingdom of God will be one 
universal among men, it will be founded on the laws 
of the Cosmos, and its only authority will be Good. 

The Three Great Cabalas. 

The Book of the Law, the Bible, gives us the three 

great tongues — human, natural and divine — of the 

three Cabalas. The Old Testament was written in 

Hebrew— M, tongVLt founded on Mun— md only through 



THE NATURAL. CABALA. 67 

the Human Cabala of this tongue can it be interpreted. 
The New Testament, Matthew excepted, was written 
in Greek — a tongue founded on Nature — and only 
through the Natural Cabala of this tongue can it be 
fully interpreted. The Divine tongue is the one that 
has most made this book its own, that has most pre- 
served, promulgated and practiced it. It is the tongue 
most spoken among developed and progressive white 
races. The English is the divine tongue of human 
emancipation, of personal freedom, of mental liberty, 
of fraternal education, of cosmopolitan growth and 
of universal application. 

Greek and Hebrew each Distinctive. 

The most simple and natural Cabala is the Greek. 
Its twenty-four letters are named and numbered as 
here given, and not otherwise, in spite of the fact that, 
in imitation of the Hebrew method, certain Cabalists 
have divided the Greek alphabet into three classes, rep- 
resenting units, tens and hundreds. By this Hebraic 
method Alpha commenced the units, Iota the tens and 
Rho the hundreds, and made necessary the introduc- 
tion of three extra characters to represent 6, 90, and 
900. The Greek Cabala, thus mangled, is the one 
more generally used simply because it corresponds 
with the Hebrew in working out the occult signifi.cance 
of certain words. Any alphabet, so treated, would do 
the same. This method destroys much of its useful- 
ness, for a Hebrew expression is forced at the expense 
of the Greek or Natural expression. For instance, the 
Iota is naturally 9, and represents the natural progress 
of Nature existing in conformity therewith, while the 
corresponding Hebrew letter is Yodh, representing 10, 
or the Raised 1. To make the Iota represent 10, when 
it naturally represents 9, is to suppress the working 
relationship of 9 and 10 as seen in the Great Pyramid 
of Cheops, where a human (Hebrew) inclination of 10 
is complemented by a notimU <<3:x^^>k^ "As^^ ^\ ^^ 



58 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

The Greek alphabet, consisting of twenty-four sym- 
bols, corresponds with the hours of the day and the 
houses of the Zodiac. The sum of its digits relates it 
to the Seal of Six Points, which becomes the womb 
of and gives birth to a Secret Seventh Point or Sun. 
Thus Nature is prolific, and she constantly gives birth 
to the useful, the orderly and the beautiful throughout 
all hours and polarities. Nature is the Great Mother. 
As Isis, Eva, Mary, Venus, or Virgo the Virgin, she is 
ever pure, for no man can set aside her law/ and only 
by her aid can he achieve art, invention and utility. 

The Cabala of Nature, therefore, is as follows: 

The Greek Cabala. 

1 Alpha A 9 Iota J, I, Y 17 Rho R 

2. Beta B 10 Kappa K 18 Sigma S 

3 Gamma G 11 Lambda L 19 Tau T 

4 Delta D 12 Mu M 20 Upsilon U 

5 Epsilon V, W, E 13 Nu N 21 Phi P, Ph 

6 Zeta Z 14 Xi X, S 22 Chi C, Ch 

7 Eta E long 15 Omicron O shm-t 23 Psi Ps 

8 Theta H, Th 16 Pi P 24 Omega O 

Examples: J 9, ;B 7, S 14, U 20, S 14, giving 64, the 
digits, adding into 10, show the Exalted One. 

CH 22, R 17, I 9, S 14, T 19, giving 81, the square of 
and adding into 9, the Master Digit. 

G 3, O 15, D 4, gives 22, or 4, the number of Good- 
ness. Place these numbers in a column and they show 
the Exalted 1 of 354, or a true right-angled triangle. 
This number shows the natural years of the incarna- 
tion of Christ— 33— found by dividing 354 by 9, adding 
the quotient into a single digit and affixing it to the 
right of the remainder. This is the last step in what is 
known as the Astral Number. We append to this chap- 
ter, by permission, all that has been made public of it. 

Mystics in general regard the Hebrew Cabala as 

one of the great lights of esoteric wisdom. It consists 

of the twenty-two letters of the fitbce^ slvb&bet (k$ 



THE HUMAN CABALA. 



59 



numbers they represent, and the generic human ideas they 
severally symbolize from being founded on Man and 
his relations to the Infinite. Thus sex and destiny 
are important factors of the Hebrew Cabala, and our 
consideration of them is given in connection with the 
* ' Tarot of the Bohemians, ''twenty-two cards of which 
represent the symbolic ideas of the Hebrew Cabala. 

The first column of the following Cabala and Tarot 
table shows the cabalistic order of the Hebrew letters 
whose names are in the second column. Their corre- 
sponding English letters, numerical values and tarot 
symbols come next in order: 



1 Aleph 

2 Beth 

3 Gimel 

4 Daleth 

5 He 

6 Vau 

7 Zayin 

8 Cheth 

9 Teth 

Yodh 

1 Caph 

2 Lamed 

3 Mem 

4 Nun 



Cabala and Tarot Table. 

A 1 The Magician 

B, BH,BY.. 2 High Priestess 

G, GH 3 The Empress 

D, DH 4 The Emperor 



H, E 

U, V, W . . . . 
Z 



5 The Hierophant 

6 The Lovers 

7 The War Chariot 
CH,KH,H,X 8 Justice (equilibrium) 
T 9 The Hermit 

I, J, Y 10 Wheel of Pate 

C, CH, K, KH 20 Strength 

L 30 The Suspended Man 

M 40 Death 

N 50 Temperance 



5 Samech S 60 The Demon 



6 Ajdn 

7 Phe 



O, GHH .... 70 Lightn'g-struck tower 
P, PH, P . . . 80 The Star 



8 Tsadhe TS, TZ, Z . . . 90 The Moon 



) Koph 

20 Resh 
Shin 

21 Tau 



K, Q 100 The Sun 

R, EH 200 Judgment 

S, SH 300 The Pool 

T, TH 400 The Universe 

When final, Caph denotes 500; Mem, 600; Nun, 700; 
Phe, 800; and Tiadhe, 90Q« 



60 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

To ascertain the occult properties of a name or word 
by means of this Cabala, the corresponding letters of 
the name or 'v^ord must be found in the Hebrew and 
their numbers set down and added. The quotient or 
its digits, added or transposed, will, in being the num- 
ber or digits of some other object or idea, establish an 
analogy or ** correspondence*' between the name or 
word examined and the object or idea thus indicated. 
Take, for example, the word Pyramid. Our collegi- 
ate scholars and encyclopedic writers fail to find its 
true root. Its cabalistic value will discover it: 

P Y R A M I D gives 

Phe, Yodh, Resh, Aleph, Mem, Yodh, Daleth — or 
80 plus 10 plus 200 plus 1 plus 40 plus 10 plus 4, or 345 

The significance of this number is made plain when 
we realize that 3, 4 and 5 are the only digital numbers 
that, expressed geometrically, will form a true right- 
angled triangle, from which springs the famous forty- 
seventh problem of Euclid. 

The following table, by omitting the Hebrew, gives 
the cabalistic value of the English directly: 



Hebrew Values of English Letters. 



A 
B 
C 

D 

E 

P 

G 

H 

I 

J 

K 

2/ 



1 


N. 


50 


BH, BY . 


2 


2 


0. 


70 


CH 


..8 or 20 


20 


P. 


80 


CK 


20 


4 


Q. 


100 


DH 


4 


5 


R. 


200 


GH 


3 


80 


S. 


60 or 300 


GrMll .... 


70 


3 


T. 


.9 or 400 


HH ..... 


8 


5 


U. 


6 


KH 


..8 or 20 


10 


V. 


6 


PH 


80 


10 


w. 


6 


RH 


200 


100 


X. 


8 


SH 


800 


80 


Y. 


10 


TH 


400 


40 


z. 


..7orft0 


TS^Tl.. 


00 



THE DIVINE CABALA. 61 

With this table a name would be calculated as follows 

(using my own as an example): 
W 6. i 10, 1 30, 1 30, i 10, s 60, the sum of which is . . 146 

F 80, r 200, e 5, d 4, e 5, r 200, i 10, ck 20 524 

W 6, h 5, i 10, t 9, e 5, h 5, e 5, a 1, d 4 50 

Now, by adding the three numbers of the name, 720 
is found as its cabalistic value, and, in seeking a corre- 
spondence, we find that 720 is twice 360, or the degrees 
of the Zodiac, showing a capacity for studying it in 
a double sense — materially and mystically. The per- 
mutation of 6 gives 720 also, denoting Uranus, whose 
digital number is 6 (from its order), as my ruling planet. 

Again, we can vary the number of the name by using 
the larger numbers for S and T, so as to obtain 960, 
1111, 1351, and their variations, like 60Q, 5113, etc. 

It may be laid down as a mystic axiom that each 
step of the way to truth is ever most direct, simple 
and plain. Truth is generally found midway between 
two extreme and opposing opinions, like those of a 
bigoted materialist, to whom everything is matter, and 
a bogus metaphysician, to whom everything is spirit. 

The English alphabet holds everything within itself 
with which to build a perfect Cabala. Its twenty-six 
letters or thought symbols (for symbols are the tools 
of the mind) correspond with half the weeks in a year 
and twice the points of the Zodiac. By using the let- 
ters as Capitals and Commons, Major and Minor sets 
are formed, whose sum is fifty-two, corresponding to 
the weeks of the year and the symbolic leaves of the 
Book of Thought. Following the above axiom we put 
the letters and corresponding numbers as plainly and 
naturally as possible, each general column represent- 
ing a season of the year, with its thirteen weeks, and 
a suit of the book, with its thirteen emblems. The 
twenty-six Majors represent the Zodiacal Houses of 
Bight Ascension, and the twenty-six Minors thoae. ol 
Left DeclenBlon. 



62 



THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 



English Cabala of Correspondences. 





Major. 




MiNOE. 




Hearts. Clubs. "X" 


Diamonds. 

• 


l^pades. 


A .... 1 N ....14 ...114 


a ....27 


n . 


...40 


B ... 


.2 ....15 ...115 


b . 


...28 


o . 


...41 


C ... 


.3 P ....16 ...116 


c . 


...29 


P • 


...42 


D ... 


,.4 Q ....17 ...117 


d . 


...30 


q • 


...43 


E ... 


..5 R ....18 ...118 


e . 


...31 


r . 


...44 


P ... 


..6 S ....19 ...119 


f , 


...32 


s . 


...45 


G .. 


..7 T ....20 ...120 


S 


. . . . uu 


t . 


...46 


H ... 


,.8 U ....21 ...221 


h . 


...34 


u . 


...47 


I .. 


..9 V ....22 ...222 


• 

1 


...35 


V . 


...48 


J .. 


..10 W ....23 ...223 


• 


. ... 36 


w . 


...49 


K ... 


..11 X ....24 .:.224 


k . 


...37 


X . 


...50 


L ... 


.12 Y ....25 ...225 


1 


. . . . 38 


y • 


...51 


M .. 


..13 Z ....26 ...226 


m . 


... d«7 


z . 


...52 



This Cabala is two-fold — Objective and Subjective: 

The Objective Cabala is that we have described (of 
the fifty-two English alphabet symbols, consecutively 
numbered from 1 to 52) and is applicable to alljobjects 
we may conceive as receiving Divine attention, or that 
which is viewed by the All-Seeing Eye of OM. 

The Subjective Cabala is that formed by the Major 
Symbols. The Capital letters A to M are numbered, 
as in the Objective Cabala, from 1 to 13, for the reason 
that Love (denoted by the Spring Season and Quarter 
of Hearts) is both Divine and Human. The thirteen 
original, regular and consecutive numbers also show 
the thirteen original, regular and consecutive geomet- 
rical points to the divine plan of Our Father's House, 
the Celestial Temple of the Zodiac. The House thus 
built is peopled by Angels who ascend and descend its 
Zodiacal Arch. These Angels are the Seven Planets, 
and their number, being the central or pivotal number 
of thirteen, and also the sum of the primaries (1, 2, 4), 
npreaentB equilibrium. BquUibrlumi being a diviM 



THREE MYSTIC STARS REVEALED. 63 

principle, we next incorporate it to form a Subjective 
Cabala, and do so by prefixing (as all motions tend to 
equilibrium, and thereby originate life) sefven ones to 
the numbers of Major Symbols N to T, as in column 
**X. " The Seven Planets having Twelve Polarities, 
as to the Central Sun, and these polarities represent- 
ing six feminine and six masculine houses, or six com- 
plementary pairs of polarities, we prefix six twos to 
the numbers of Major Symbols U to Z, which finishes 
column ** X, '' builds the Cosmos, endues it with Love, 
Light and Life, and completes our Subjective Cabala 
of the Divine World. 

Infallibility is not claimed for this English Cabala, 
but a working cabala embracing many excellent qual- 
ities is claimed. Possibly, J and U may be made the 
last letters, as in the printer's cap case. Other changes 
will render new interpretations. We give the follow- 
ing examples, based on our present table. 

An ordinary name should be judged as it is written, 
following the Minor scale, as follows: 

W 23, i 35, I 38, 1 38, i 35, s 45 214 

P 6, r 44, e 31, d 30, e 31, r 44, i 35, c 29, k 37 287 

W 23, h 34, i 35, t 46, e 31, h 34, e 31, a 27, d 30. . . . 291 

^ A transposition of twice the height of Cheops. . 792 

Take a well known professional name: 
N. 114, B. 5, W 223, o 41, o 41, d 30, A. 1, M. 13, M. 13, D. 4, 
giving 485, and showing a correspondence to Cheops. 

The correspondence found between these names indi- 
cates a co-ordination in pyramidic work. 

The height of the Great Pyramid is 486 feet. This 
number may be obtained by squaring the Master Digit 
(9), multiplying the 81 thus obtained by the Zodiac (12), 
and dividing the resultant 972 by the poles (2)=486. 

We come now to an exposition of three Mystic Star^^ 
representing Life, Love, an^LlA^^.. 



64 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Three Great Mystic Lights. 

The Major Cabala gives Pyramid Cheops as follows: 
P 116, Y 225, R 118, A 1, M 13, I 9, D 4 486 

Giving exact height of Pjrramid Cheops in feet. 
C 3, H 8, E 5, O 115, P 116, S 119 366 

Largest number of days in a year. 

The sum of the numbers of Pyramid Cheops . . . 852 
symbolizes a pentagram incarnated in a number that 
adds into 10 — the Living One. Thus interpreted, the 
Great Pyramid is our Star of Life. 

Note how the Master corresponds with Cheops: 
J 10, E 5, S 119, U 221, S 119 474 

The planetary potencies mid the celestial cube. 
C 3, H 8, R 118, I 9, S 119, T 120 377 

Sum of days ot year and houses of Zodiac. 

The sum of the numbers of Jesus Christ 85 1 

symbolizing a pentagram incarnated in a nunfber that 
adds into 9 — the most potent digit — corresponding to 
Love, the most potent force. Thus interpreted, the 
Great Master is our Star of Love. 

The Master and Cheops correspond in number. The 
difference of 1 is the difference arising from a perfect 
and an imperfect quadrature of the same number, and 
is a neccfisary mark of the Humanity of Christ. 

The Word of our Solar System is the Sun: 
S 119, U 221, N 114 454 

This number shows the pentagramic star (5) illumi- 
nating the cube (4 and 4) of the celestial sphere. 

The digits of this number add into 18, corresponding 
to the points of the Zodiac, the thirteenth point show- 
ing the Great Sun as our Star of Light. 

* 

Two numbers, 45 and 54, are obtained in reading to or 
from the pentagram. 45 denoting the fruitful Inspira- 
tion of Isis and 54 the radiant Illumination of Elohlm. 
Both add into the divine Nine, the ''final digit" of 
G T, 115, D 4^^126, the sum of whose digits is 9* 



THE PATH OP ATTAINMENT. 65 

Logos is the Greek word for Christ. Its number in 
Hebrew is: L 30, O 70, G 3, O 70, S 300, giving 473. 
This number is also obtained for lesus by the English 
Cabala, and its "final digit" shows the pentagram or 
Star of the Magi: I 9, E 5, S 119, U 221, S 119--473. 

The Supreme Law of Love. 

There is one supreme Spiritual Law, and all relig- 
ions express some portion of it. The various creeds 
are but the crystalized conceptions of men who have 
•sought their relationship with the Divine, whom they 
have intuitively recognized. Each era of religious 
evolution presents a central idea which serves as a 
foundation-stone for religious ceremony and dogma. 

Justice is the natural basis of religion. From the 
idea of justice arise the dogmas of future rewards or 
punishments for the deeds done in the body. Nothing 
can be more certain than that we enter astral life in 
the same soul condition as we leave earthly existence. 
To escape justice, sacrifices were offered as a balance 
against transgression, and faith, later on, took the 
place of sacrifices. Paitti is saving if it results in 
good works; sacrifice is saving if it be the sacrifice of 
selfish passions. The Neophyte must have faith that 
his work will exalt him or he will not pursue the path; 
he must sacrifice self to spirit, for he who would be a 
Master must spiritually conquer and govern self. 

As Justice is the natural basis of religion, so its sub- 
stitute. Sacrifice, in turn becomes the human basis of 
religion. Nothing is so self-sacrificing as Love, and 
Love thus becomes the divine basis of religion. 

Christ revealed the perfect path of attainment. He 
taught the supreme Spiritual Law of Love. Love is 
not loss, for Nature, through karmic action, insures its 
just due. Nature must act in strict accord with every 
cause, and Love, as a cause, masters Nature. Love is 
supernatural, therefore, and, in being all potent over 
Nature, reveals itselt as the (iTe^.\. Yvt^\.^^Ni5&»^* 



66 • THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Love is that which gives being to pity, compassion, 
mercy, kindness, forbearance, forgiveness and charity. 
It inspires man with high ideals and to noble actions. 
It reveals God as his Father and all men as his breth- 
ren. It gives him a religion of purity, humanity and 
integrity. These virtues are self-evident proofs of the 
Divine World. They are not of Nature, for Nature, in 
the absolute, knows nothing of mercy, forgiveness or 
charity. The same soil will grow briars or barley, 
weeds or wheat; in fact, let man abandon his barley 
and wheat fields to Nature and she will grow briars 
• and weeds. In other words. Nature will always sink 
back to the level from whence she is raised by man. 

Man, like Nature, needs cultivation. Through such 
cultivation will come the ultimate fruition of Love as 
the Universal Brotherhood of Man — ^the emblem of 
which is the grand cube of a solidified humanity — ^let 
down from Heaven to Earth as the New Jerusalem — 
the Celestial City of God's Kingdom on Earth. 

Such an ideal state is far in advance and above com- 
mon human hopes and aspirations. The Law of Love 
as taught by Christ is superhuman, but it is not, there- 
fore, unattainable. The divine Law of Love can and 
will conquer mankind even as mankind conquers the 
earth. The Supreme Will moves steadily, geometric- 
ally and majestically forward. 

The Mystic Day of the Word. 

In the beginning the Word was with God, and the 
Word was God. 

And at high meridian the word became flesh and 
lived as the Son of Man. 

At the time of the end the Word will be Love, and 
he will slay hatred, and selfishness, and uncleanliness, 
and all manner of lies. 

And all races and tongues and nations shall be one 
brotberbood and one kingdom. 



THE SIGN OP THE END. 67 

The OmniFic Word oF Words. 

Greek— L 11, O, 24, V 5, B 5— total value, 45, corre- 
sponding to the Sun, showing it inspires and illumi- 
nates; its final digit, 9, shows Love is all potent. 

Minor English— L 12, O 15, V 22, E 5— total, 54, the 
reverse of 45, being 9 more, showing divine power. 

Hebrew— L 30, O 70, V 6, B 5— total. 111, showing 
the Human trinity of Love in man, woman and child. 

Major English— L 12, O 115, V 222, E 5— total, 354. 
the astral number of the years of Christ; the Hebrew 
and Greek values before noted, and the 3, 4, 5 of the 
arch of stars, .which symbolize and build the geomet- 
rical Word of the Cosmos. 

Initiation is the path to the King's Highway. To 
learn of this path does not make an Initiate. He must 
travel the path by living the Word of Love. Unless 
he so lives he will be unfruitful, and his end will be as 
the barren tree that is cut down and cast into the fire. 
Nature rewards man according to his works. 

Every perfect thing is a manifestation of the Divine 
Word. The Sun is the Word of our Solar System, the 
Great Pyramid is the Word in stone, and in Christ the 
Word became man. He taught us that the Word of the 
Kingdom of Heaven is Love. This is the Great Word. 
It is a higher word than wealth, or place, or power, for 
man must leave all these behind him at his passover. 
It is a higher word than knowledge, for intelligence 
may attain immortality through Love without knowl- 
edge, save as love gives it to him, but he cannot attain 
immortality through knowledge without love. 

Love creates Life, it radiates Light. 

God is Love. Love is prayer, liberty, and charity. 

Love, in the end, will conquer and encompass the 
earth and subdue the passions of all races of men. 

The sign of this end will be the lighting of Astral 
Fire on the Altar of the Word beiot^lXv^'^^^^-^KssgcL^ 



68 THS MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

<i if ii 

t^ . a if 

" Let there be liffht.'»--Geii. 1, 3. 

Mystic Development. 

The Sun and the twelve houses of the Zodiac are 
symbolized by the above thirteen stars of the Arch. 

They are divided into two groups — seven on the left, 
for the seven planets, and five on the right, for the 
points of the pyramid. One planet is dark, showing 
Saturn, the death-reaper; one point of the pyramid is 
dark, denoting that the astral fi^e is not yet kindled 
thereon. The Sun in the center is dark, showing that 
the Kingdom of the Sun of Humanity is yet obscured. 
The four lines formed by the stars symbolize the four 
quarters of the heavens, the bow made by the three 
dark stars denoting the Spade division thereof. The 
three dark stars further symbolize the esoteric rela- 
tions that man, as body, soul and spirit, sustains to 
the natural, human and divine worlds. The ten light 
stars indicate the Raised Cube of Immortal Life man 
becomes by conquering ignorance, self and death. 

Death and Immortality. 

The body corresponds to the material and physical 
world and has its origin therein. Being of the earth, 
a physical change comes to it, as to all finite forms, 
which men miscall death, but which is but one of many 
like physical culminations. As we cannot blot out of 
existence an atom of matter, a change of form, through 
physical disintregation, is all that takes place — science 
can demonstrate no more; the laws of physical exist- 
ence will accept, finally, no less. Form is but an inci- 
dent in the infinite evolution of eternal substance. 

Real death is spiritual destruction, the annihilation 
of individuality, the failure or premature culmination 



KEY-WORDS OP UNFOLDMENT. 60 

of an end, the starvation of aspiration. It is the igno- 
rance that ends in spiritual suicide. Would you see 
death personified? Look on the unfruitful blossom — 
it is dead to its promised fruit. Gaze on the ruins of 
empires — the ashes of once populous cities — who fell 
through selfish pride and lust and greed, debauching 
pomp, and cruel, despotic power. Contemplate crum- 
bling castles, whose haughty lords made week-kneed 
serfs of robust yeomen. See the darkened chambers 
and blasted foundations of courts and palaces where 
treacherous tyrants held inhuman sway. Behold the 
torture-chambers, festering cells and satanic tribunals 
of titled crime and legal greed. These things speak 
of death. Castle and palace, court and prison, all 
wear its fatal sign. 

To be immortal we must deserve immortality, and 
to deserve immortality is to deserve to exist for the 
good we may do and the truth we may acquire. All 
that the spirit can carry to its astral abode is the 
good and the true that it has made its own.. Death 
and all that leads to death can never enter the realm 
of Love and Life and Light. To enter therein is to 
be an embodiment of these eternal verities. 

Natural Foundations. 

The apparent course of the Sun through the twelve 
signs or houses of the Zodiac has been made the basis 
of mythological legend, like the twelve labors of Her- 
cules, and of astrological parable, like the history of 
Samson. These view the life of man as traveling the 
twelve houses or polarities of the Zodiac during the 
natural course of his earthly career, and experiencing 
in each a natural lesson, labor and achievement. 
The natural lessons of the Zodiac are as follows: 
Aries, the house of beginnings, teaches the impor- 
tance of Youth, Whatever tends to destroy it is evil; 
whatever preserves it is good. The lamb is an emblem 
of youth and innocence; the^ t\ie:T^iat^ ^^ \t^^j^^5CQ«x 



70 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Innocence is the fount of youth. Instruction, enter- 
tainment and employment should be innocent in char- 
acter as they preserve youth. An innocent life insures 
a youthful body, even in old age. 

Taurus, the house of the bull, teaches Energy. It is 
a fixed house, denoting stability. Energy and stabil- 
ity go together. An energy devoted to stable things 
insures a firm foundation and an enduring structure. 

Gemini, the twins, teaches Ardor. Fidelity is its 
twin companion. Ardor and fidelity create friendship 
and social ties. He who is an ardent friend need not 
fear an enemy. Ardor conquers enmity. 

Cancer, the crab, is the house of the mother, and 
teaches Prudence and Purity. Prudence forbids rash- 
ness, prepares for emergency, and holds fast to the 
good. Without purity happiness is unstable and soon 
fiees away. With purity the joys of life augment. A 
pure life is unvexed by contagious evil. 

Leo, the lion, teaches Intelligence. Craft or cunning 
cannot withstand intelligence for intelligence knows 
and acts knowingly. Intuition is possible only with 
intelligence and is its highest means of knowledge. 

Virgo teaches Metnory, the virgin attribute of the 
mind. The results of experience are stored up by the 
memory. Successes and failures are easily recalled 
and we always remember such things as most unfre- 
quently happen in proportion as they impress us. 

Libra, the scales, teaches Silence. Observation, com- 
parison and reflection call for it. Rest from noise 
is essential to true conception just as a steady light is 
essential to clear sight. As sleep cures fatigue and is 
a necessary respite from toil, so silence cures mental 
weariness and necessarily follows studious thought. 

Scorpio teaches the need of improving Opportunity^ 
as it soon passes, and thus indicates indifFerence as 
the Scorpion of advancement. 

Sagittarius, the archer, teaches Reason, the feath- 
ered shaft that secures and iortifteB OTie'% ovn- By its 



f 



THE THREE-FOLD MYSTIC LIFE. 71 

aid error is exploded and truth upheld. It demon- 
strates that cause and effect are proportional to each 
other, and must forever continue as a chain of life. 

Capricornus, the goat, teaches Desire, Desire should 
be cultivated to aspire upward. This is accomplished 
through knowledge, the desire for which increases in 
exact ratio with the capacity for learning. Thus may 
desires be corrected, which otherwise may degrade and 
destroy, to climb the mountains of life. 

Aquarius, the waterman, teaches Carefulness, which 
virtue corrects carelessness and encourages cheerful- 
ness. As the rain descends alike upon the just and 
unjust, so should we be careful to treat all men as our 
brethren, ever exercising that charity toward them we 
most highly cherish when extended toward ourselves. 
No drouth will come to him who is constant and care- 
ful in all things that he doeth. 

Pisces, the fishes, teaches Health. To emulate the 
dwellers of the deep is to observe harmonious relations 
with the laws of the Cosmos and our finite environ- 
ments. This preserves health. Ills invariably follow 
perverted appetites and artificially acquired desires. 
Health is harmony; disease is discord. 

The words of the Zodiac give the grand Sun-word of 
existence, and this, in turn, holds in itself the mystic 
words of the quarters and triplicities. 

To use the great words we must live the Ideal Life 
of Light and Love that the Zodiacal words portray. 

When lived, the twelve mystic words of the 2iOdiac 
insure happiness in this life and immortal progress 
hereafter. They are the lasting foundation of mystic 
development. Thus the ideal mystic life begins and is 
supported by a correct physical existence. 

Through the true attainment of a natural existence 
the physical self is conquered and governed. 

The mystic man is now born — all others are impos* 
ters, cheats and hypocrites, blind leaders of the blind, 
whose end is the ditch of death. 



72 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

As the mystic life includes a correct physical life so 
it also includes an intellectual life, ^hich springs into 
being in proportion as the spirit surmounts substance. 
The pursuit of knowledge is the intellectual life. It 
is a part of the mystic life. The mystic is intellectual. 
The acquisition of truth adds to the mentality. The 
mentality is changed with the acquisition of every new 
fact in proportion thereto. The Intellectual Mystic is 
not a wonder-hunter but a truth-finder. He aspires to 
a knowledge of those celestial and divine truths that 
concern his future destiny and that of mankind. He 
intuitively knows that these truths are in accord with 
all the facts that Science teaches. He thus finds the 
exact sciences stepping-stones to higher attainments, 
and the Seven Diameter StvdieSy corresponding to the 
seven potencies — Mathematics, Geometry, Chemistry, 
Language, Physics, Logic, Astronomy — all receive his 
careful attention. 

The Intellectual Mystic thus conquers ignorance. 

Applying his knowledge to events, whose sum is 
history, the Mystic soon perceives that the human 
world moves in exact accordance with Cosmic Law, 
even as Nature herself. He finds that he is an indis- 
pensable atom of an Infinite Whole — that his exist- 
ence is not an accident. He realizes that he is in the 
hands of a Master Builder, who, in forming infinite 
shape, found his creation necessary. He finds that he 
can, with full confidence, trust the Infinite Wisdom he 
sees displayed, on every hand, sure in spirit that the 
One who created him will preserve him so long as he 
is worthy and well qualified for further advancement. 

The Spiritual Mystic is now born. 

The apparent entrance of the Sun into Aries, the 
first house, marks the first day of Spring, or the first 
season of the year, and it is in Libra, the seventh 
house, where the Earth feels life silently awakening 
within herself under the Sun in Aries, where the cir 
cult of the Spiritual Mystic commences. 



THE KING'S HIGHWAY. 78 

There is a perfect correspondence between the solar 
cycle and the path of initiation. The first step therein 
must be taken in Libra, whose Scales signify equality 
of astral forces, under Aries, the house of birth. 

Mystic light, once planted in the Spirit, grows and 
strengthens daily and hourly, just as the life of a bulb 
constantly gathers more life and power. This growth 
is in exact accord with the laws of astral chemistry, 
and builds up from within that which seeks to see the 
light of the Sun of Truth. This building up is a tiny 
shoot, and through it, however tender or humble it 
may be, the spirit, like the bulb, finds its opportunity 
of seeing the sunlight and knowing its source. But 
this is a critical time for the tender shoot, for Scorpio 
is a treacherous house, and its conditions and environ- 
ments constantly tax and try the exposed life. 

The Mystic Consciousness, minidful of its dangers 
and desires, arms and equips itself with the circular 
bow and straight arrow of Sagittarius. The bow is 
Righteousness, the shaft is Reason, and these are the 
implements of spiritual geometry. The Right is seen 
through actions, but the Reason is hid within. 

In traveling the path thus far the Mystic is actuated 
by a constant Love of Light. His heart has inspired 
his mentality to study, research and thought. This 
has resulted in a well-balanced mind, a faithful heart, 
and a sure and steady band. He has observed Silence, 
improved Opportunity, and applied Reason. 

He has reached a point in mystic development where 
he no longer needs our words of description. The way 
lies level and straight before him. It is the path of 
eternal life — the King's Highway. 

Nature conserves her potent principles of life, light 
and love. Spirit is as eternal as substance. Life's 
passover is but the breaking of the shell of earth's 
encasement that the ripened kemal may be free to 
ascend higher and triumph over death, the last enemy 
to be destroyed. No true spiiit c».ti ^-vsSsx ^^-^iCc^.. 



74 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

The thirteen stars represent the Master and his dis- 
ciples. The life of the Word corresponds with the 
Zodiac. He was born, as a iamb, in a manger; follow- 
ing the heavenly emblems, he lived the life of light and 
love, teaching truth and doing good; and was lifted up, 
as a final sacrifice, at the passover, between the twin 
pillars of Pisces. He thus fulfilled the law and sealed 
as complete the cosmic correspondence between the 
natural, human and divine worlds. Herein lies a dem-^ 
onstration of his Being, his being the Word, and the 
word of his Message. Correspondence, as a cosmic 
law, exists throughout substance, soul and spirit. As 
it is above so it is below; as below, so above. What 
man finds in Nature he also finds in Humanity, and may 
further find in Divinity. The light of the Sun is abso- 
lute proof that the true light would incarnate in flesh, 
and that the divine Son of Man in turn would disclose 
the Universal Spirit as a Supreme Sun of Fatherly 
Love. We know of the Father through the Son; we 
KNOW of the Son through the Sun of Day. As we can- 
not sin against Sunlight, just so we cannot sin against 
the I AM or His Light. We can only sin against our- 
selves and against one another. We must repay, to 
the final atom, the price Nature sets on every abuse of 
ourselves or others. The chemical processes of Nature 
contain no sentiment. We cannot harm the light, but 
we can deprive ourselves and others of the light. Our 
preference of darkness, abuse and hate can result in 
no other end than extinction. There is no forgiveness 
for the sin against the divine spark or ego. It is not 
written that the soul that sinneth shall escape, but 
that it shall die. The wages of sin is death everlast- 
ing, and the fruit of Christ is divine light— of divine 
light, pertect love — ot perfect love, eternal life. 

Death is conquered through love even as ignorance 
is conquered through knowledge. Those who destroy 
lite shall everlastingly be destroyed, and those who 
keep the law ot lov^ shall ever live amid the light. 



ASTRAL NUMBER OP INCARNATION. 



75 



THE ASTRAL NUMBER. 



Every person has an Astral Number which represents 
the conditions and culminations of life. It is formed 
from the Astral Numbers of the day and month of 
birth, the year born, and the planetary forces operat- 
ing on the individual, as denoted by personal history 
and constitutional make-up. Following are the 

TABLES OF ASTRAL POWERS. 



Powers of the Planets. 

Mercury 994356 Saturn 241056 

Venus 964224 Uranus 120528 

Mars 542376 Neptune 60264 

Jupiter 482112 

Powers of the Months. 



January 161624 

February 266438 

March 334154 

April 499637 

May... 597728 

June 693389 



July .491294 

August 324839 

September 353675 

October 227963 

November 217433 

December 188192 



1 . . . . 157732 
2.... 218136 
3.... 256876 
4.... 358936 
5.... 461968 
6.... 533896 
7.... 616516 
8.... 656368 
9.... 722464 
10.... 881872 
n.... 719548 



Powers of the Days. 

12.... 622348 
13.... 491128 
14.... 361852 
15.... 236464 
16.... 186892 
17.... 169396 
18.... 154816 
19.... 221884 
20.... 233548 
21.... 274372 



23.... 386152 
24.... 468772 
25.... 683584 
26.... 524176 
27 ... . 362824 
28.... 269512 
29.... 246184 
30.... 198556 
31 ... . 163564 



22.... 876432 

Century Ordinates: 19th. 8831652; 20th, 8331642; 
2l8t, 8831632; 22d, 8831622. These tables ate <iw*«A. 



76 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

Directions for Casting the Astral Ndmber. - 

Set down in regular order, under each other, the 
powers of the planets, etc., as follows: 

1. If a male, set down the power of Mercury. 

2. If a female, the power of Venus. 

3. If single, at present, the power of Mars. 

4. If never married, or a virgin, Uranus power also. 

5. If married now, the power of Jupiter. 

6. If single through divorce, the power of Neptune. 

7. If light complexioned, the power of Venus. 

8. If black hair and eyes, both Mercury and Venus. 

9. If medium complexioned, use no powers. 

10. If own father is dead, the power of Jupiter. 

11. If own mother is dead, the power of Saturn. 

12. Set down power of month of birth. 

13. Set down power of day of birth. 

14. Set down the year of birth. 

Add together. The sum total is the Astral Number. 

To test the work, add the four figures of the year of 
birth together, and their sum, to one final digit. This 
will also be the ** final digit" of the Astral Number. 

The Century Ordinate is added to the Astral Num- 
ber. Analysis is made by means of elaborate books. 

When applied to the Zodiac, the operative results of 
the Astral Number, through analysis, indicate that: 

1. Aries represents a male. 

2. Taurus, a female. 

8. Gemini, a married person. 

4. Cancer, that the mother is dead. 

5. Leo, a dark complexioned person. 

6. Virgo, a virgin of either sex. 

7. Libra, a medium complexioned person. 

8. Scorpio, a widow or widower, or divorced. 

9. Sagittarius, that the father is dead. 

10. Capricornus, that the father is alive. 

11. Aquarius, a light complexioned person. 

12. Pisces, that the mother is alive. 



MYSTIC HYPOTHESIS NECESSARY. 77 



THE ASTRAL BROTHERHOOD, 



The Book of Intelligence, the Tarot of the Bohemians 

and the Clavicle of Solomon. 

Every Mystic must necessarily travel the path with 
a faith that it will ultimately lead him to the highway 
of positive knowledge. This is the theoretical part 
of his journey. He necessarily works on a mystical 
hypothesis until his quest is rewarded by a knowledge 
of some part of the Astral Sciences. These are the 
spiritual complements of the Seven Diameter Studies, 
Magic being the Science of Astral Chemistry. 

The Brotherhood of Magic is an Astral Association 
composed of Mystics who have attained to their ideal 
of individual life. They have discovered and formu- 
lated the Astral Sciences above mentioned. They are 
bound together by certain common pursuits and aims, 
and are fitly symbolized by the arch of stars. 

The twenty-six light and twenty-six dark stars also 
symbolize and correspond to the fifty-two light and. 
dark leaves of the Book of Hermes — ^the common book 
of cards. The history of this book is obscured by a 
multitude of conflicting claims. I here advance the 
only reasonable hypothesis we can set up concerning 
it, being one that accords with and explains every fact 
established in regard to this book—that it originated 
with the Rosicrucian brotherhood, and was used by its 
members as a text-book of instruction relative to the 
Natural, Human and Divine Worlds. 

The British Museum's oflBcial card catalogue says: 

** What is the earliest date known at which reference has been 
made to the existence of these agents? Not any pretence has 
been made to show that this occurred before 1278.'' 

The earliest positive date in the history of cards is 
February 1, 1892, as shown by tti^ iQ^^ss^xsiNL ^^^^^^^ "^^ 



78 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

the registers of the Chambrea dea Oomptes of Charles VI, 
the mentally unsound king of Prance: 

^* Given to Jacquemin Grin^onneur, painter, for three packs of 
cards, in g-old and various colors, and ornamented with several 
devices, to carry before the Lord, our Kingf, for his amusement, 
fifty-six sols of Paris." 

It will be seen that there were three packs and that 
the painter was not paid for inventing them but for the 
cards themselves. It is not reasonable to hold that 
the three packs were alike, but it is reasonable to hold 
that they were the three grand divisions of the first 
pack of cards to become generally known — those pro- 
duced in Italy toward the close of the fourteenth cent- 
ury. This Italian pack contained seventy-eight cards. 
It naturally embraced three packs — (1) forty pip cards, 
symbolically numbered from 1 to 10, by cups, wands, 
pentacles and swords; (2) sixteen court cards, showing 
four kings, queens, knights and knaves, and (3) twenty- 
two emblematical cards, as shown in the **tarots " of 
our Cabala table on page 59. To nothing else than 
these Italian cards was the word tarot applied — a word 
manifestly coined from the Italian word rotate, or the 
Latin word rota, each signifying a wheel, and hence 
meaning a book that turns or rotates when shuffled or 
cut. It is reasonable to conclude that it was this pack 
of Italian cards that was painted for the French king. 
The seventy-eight pack has been called the **Tarots 
of the Bohemians. *' This is a misnomer, for when the 
Gypsies first appeared in Europe, about 1417, the cards 
were already well known. They undoubtedly imme- 
diately adopted them as a means of support, through 
divination, and thus fortunately aided in the preserva- 
tion of their original designs for a long period. 

Chatto says that hearts, bells, leaves and acorns are 
the distinctive marks of the suits on the oldest cards 
in existence. He modifies this by adding: ''Next to 
these, in point of antiquity, and perhaps of as early a 
date, are sworda, cups, batons and money." Chatto 's 



AGRIPPA A KEY TO THE CARDS. 79 

assertion only shows that the Germans were quick to 
adopt the Italian cards, substituting hearts for cups, 
leaves for batons (wands or scepters), bells for money 
(pentacles), and acorns for swords. 

The French, toward the middle of the fifteenth cent- 
lu-y, partially adopted the Ger&ian suit symbols, and 
first introduced hearts, clubs, diamonds and spades, as 
now used. The English adopted the French synibols, 
and we, in turn, have thus inherited them. 

The principal suit symbols co-ordinate as follows: 

Italian Cups Wands Pentacles Swords 

German Hearts Lieaves ' Bells Acorns 

French Hearts Clubs Diamonds Spades 

The various games invented for the cards eliminated 
the twenty-two cabalistic cards, as a rule, though the 
Gypsies clung to them as being, apparently, the most 
valuable part of the pack for divinatory purposes. 

Soldiers, sailors, the aristocracy and nomadic tribes 
rapidly spread them throughout the world. All pur- 
poses to which they were put were invented for them. 
I now propose to show what they were invented for. 

Henry Cornelius Agrippa, who wrote extensively 
concerning magic in the sixteenth century, says not a 
word about cards, then universally known and used 
for divinatory purposes. He does say, however, in his 
third book of magic : * * It is not fit that those secrets 
which are amongst a few wise men, and communicated 
by mouth only, should be publicly written. Wherefore 
you will pardon me if I pass over in silence many and 
the chief est secret mysteries of Ceremonial Magic.*' 

These ^^ few wise men'' were Cabalists and Rosicru- 
cians. Agrippa was an eminent Cabalist and founded 
a lodge of Rosicrucians at Paris in 1506. If the cards 
were originated and used by these few wise men and 
held among their ** chief est secret mysteries," they 
will bear internal evidence of such fact. This is the 
case. Agrippa wrote his three books on magic In cc^kj^- 
sonance with the three ^otlAa— XL'a.\.\5ct^> \cqxc»:x^ -azciSi. 



> 



80 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. ^ 

divine — of the Rosicrucians. The three divisions of 
the old seventy-eight pack correspond to these worlds. 
The twenty-two tarots represent the Human Worldi 
the sixteen court cards the zodiacal houses and quar- 
terly points of the Divine World, and the pip cards the 
Natural World. The symbols of the tarots personify 
the twenty-two secret "ideas " of the Hebrew Cabala; 
those of the courts the four orders of divine beings of 
water, air, earth and fire, and those of the pips the 
instruments of their magical evocation; These last, 
rearranged in four suits of nine cards each, and con- 
taining on each page one of the seventy-two cabalistic 
names of God, formed the Clavicle of Solomon. 

When the cards first appeared Europe was Catholic 
and many mystic monks, to excuse their possession of 
and conceal their real uses, invented a game for them 
called Tarocchi. This game is the oldest one history 
records as to the cards. It was and still is played by 
the monks, with the full seventy-eight cards; through 
which means the cards undoubtedly became known. 

Once broadcast. Nature, under cosmic law, evolved 
a perfect Solar Book. By placing the cards in their 
numerical order — Ace of Hearts to King of Hearts, 1 
to 13; Clubs, 14 to 26; Diamonds, 27 to 39; Spades, 40 
to 52 — this Solar Book is built; and, having a base of 
52 and a peak of 1, it forms a numerical pyramid. 

Through the Word, this book builds another book 
that corresponds to planetary action. The following 
ancient disticli (now used for tricks) proves the work: 

Nine fair Ladies for one sick Knave 
9h 5c Qd 4s Ih 6c Jd 

Eight Kings threa— tened to save. 
88 Kh 3c 10 d 2s 7h etc. 

This distich is absolute evidence that our present 
book of fifty-two cards is that part of the original set 
used to demonstrate astronomical principles. 

The symbols of the perfected book give the pilgrim** 
pack while traveling the path oi m\t\^.t\onr-a com]^aflli 



MYSTERIES OP THE CARDS. 81 

to guide, a spade to dig, a torch to light, and a staff to 
climb. The neophyte needs all these. 

There is a strict correspondence between the book 
and the solar year — its four suits denote the seasons, 
its court cards the months, its fifty-two leaves the 
weeks, and the pip or suit values the days. 

The thirteen cards of each suit fit the points of the 
Zodiac and symbolize its divisions as it does the year. 
There are 360 **quadrations," corresponding to the 
Zodiacal degrees. In these degrees there are 1,296,000 
seconds of arc, the exact solar value of the book, less 
the aces, multiplied by 1,000. 

The cards also possess a definite time value. The 
pyramid incline of 10 to a rise of 9 feet is a key to this 
time value. Dividing 10 by 9 gives the time value of 
the Ace of Hearts — 1 minute, 6 seconds and 40 thirds. 
The time value of the Two of Hearts is twice this, or 
2 minutes, 13 seconds and 20 thirds. The value of the 
fifty-second card, the King of Spades, is fifty-two times 
this unit of 1 minute, .6 seconds and 40 thirds. Now, 
subtracting the time values of the aces, we have, in 
the sum of the time values of the remaining forty- 
eight cards, the exact day of twenty-four hours. 

When a person shuffles these cards one full minute, 
using a solar book, the cards are internally transposed 
so as to produce a time diameter. Then, by cutting 
this shuffled deck three times, twenty seconds apart, 
using another complementary measure of time, they 
are externally rotated, and thus develop a circumfer- 
ence that embraces the diameter. The book, so pre- 
pared, in the hands of a Master, will disclose much 
that pertains to and affects the individual. 

The Ancient Masters could not have invented a more 
novel, ingenious or effective means of preserving, con- 
cealing and teaching the sacred wisdom, or of trans- 
mitting to a. more tolerant and enlightened age those 
vital truths they guarded with such jealous care. 

It is the true Magic Book of the Maji^uet cst'^^ccM 



* ^ • • • • 

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A MESSAGE FROM THE STARS. 



I stood afc eventlme. The never-ending plain 
All empty looked and void. Yet, as I ^azed a^aln. 
An army bivouacked. Unnumbered points of li^ht 
Bespoke a force Supreme— invincible for Rl^ht. 



AN INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE. 88 

•T*H*EfM*A*G*I*CfM*M«E*0*B* 

T 

A MESSAGE TO MYSTICS BY DIRECTION OF 
THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAGIC. 



THE BROTHERS DELIVER THEIR MESSAGE. 

On the day of the Message I testified, first, that I knew 
the Brotherhood lived, and that Magic — Astral Chem- 
istry — was a fact. When ready for the copy of the 
Message, it came, as fast as I could write it, in four 
installments, equally timed to an hour each, with half 
an hour's rest between them. I started, thinking that 
it would make about five pages. It made twice that. 
I had it completely written between 12 and 1 o'clock. 

Their message is here given again, as amended and 
revised by them, and contains much new and impor- 
tant matter — about half of it, as here given, being pub- 
lished for the first time. It is now complete. 



}^ 



MESSAGE OF THE BROTHERHOOD. 

if WORK OF THE BROTHERHOOD. * THE ASTRAL AGE. * TEST OP • 

-,> BROTHERHOOD. * CRY OF THE EGO. • THE IDEAL LIFE. <r 

• THE AURA OF POWER. * MYSTIC DEVELOPMENT. * 

To the Mystics of Earth the Astral Brotherhood of Magic 
send Love and Oreethig: 

Until the Astral Fire is kindled by the Lord on his 
Sacred Altar in Egypt there is work for us to do pre- 
paratory thereto. 

The chains of centuries, of cycles, and of ages, are 
riven, at length, by their o^wtv \i^;sjc\.-^^>Cvcl^ T>a^. ^^^ 



84 THE MYSTIC THESAUIIL'3. 

bond that comes of darkness can endure the full dawn 
of the Day. 

To carry this work into full success we must have 
tirae^ tried and capable brothers on the Earth who will 
act in concert with us for the uplifting and education 
of Humanity. 

This is our common work. The harvest is ripe and 
the laborers of the vineyard are again called. 



The reign of absolute Justice, Truth and Goodness 
comes, at length, to every peopled world. To such cul- 
mination the march of mankind is marked with every 
vicissitude that the changes of fixed forces may imply. 
When such a state has been accomplished the planet- 
ary forces that before indicated so much sorrow, and 
suffering are found to be needful to the perfect social 
organization. The force of war is then the force of 
perpetuity, and the forces of delay, obstruction and 
slow decay are those of steady, sure and safe advance- 
ment. All cosmic forces will accord with the coming 
social state and ultimate surely therein. 

A 

The Supreme Power is an Infinite Intelligence, 
infinitely just and good. We cannot truly judge other- 
wise through a set of limited comparisons. We can- 
not measure the Infinite One by finite means. Infinity 
alone equals itself. Were infinity devoid of Infinite 
Intelligence that part of it that evolved man would 
necessarily exceed, in effecting him, the infinite power 
of its whole, which is an absurdity. The same prin- 
ciples that necessitate finite intelligence also necessi- 
tate Infinite Intelligence. As man is the measure of 
the finite so God is the measure of the Infinite. Athe- 
ism blasphemes the name of reason and worships at 
the shrine of sophistry. With satanic sneer we are 
asked to reconcile evil with Infinite Goodness, Justice 
and Power, Evil is not eternal; it holds within itself 



COSMIC LAW IS SUPREME. 85 

the elements of its own disintegration. Indeed, evil 
is disintegration. Many things are called evil that 
result in ultimate good. A transitory state, represent- 
ing a chemical evolution of nature, is a necessary part 
of progress. All evil, in the end, becomes extinct or 
develops into good. Only man is capable of evil, and 
he alone suffers extinction by reason of it. 



No man-made law can set aside or annul the Laws 
of Nature. The educated Mystic — who, of all the chil- 
dren of Earth, acts unselfishly — is Nature's own true 
instrument in human advancement. He is the one 
who has met and overthrown error and arrogance in 
high places, who has denied the divine right of kings, 
who has uprooted the rule of the despot and tyrant, 
who has lead humanity, with the potent weapon of 
thought, to triumph over superstition and ignorance, 
and who will finally be the means of ending the reign 
of the Beast who exists for a time, and times, and the 
dividing of time. 

Before the truths of our Brotherhood the bonds and 
shackles of enslaved mankind are destined to melt as 
snow beneath the Sun of Aries. 

You need not ask if whether or no you are a Mystic. 
Every soul contains within itself the attributes of the 
divine. They may be repressed and crucified, to the 
eternal loss of the Ego, or they may be made to bloom, 
like the lotus, to a beauty and power able to set the 
inferior limitations of existence at any length. 

Are you selfish? This is the question you should ask 
yourself. This is the deep, underlying condition we 
most must combat. Can you lay this selfish instinct 
aside to work for the permanent good of all in place 
of the temporary aggrandizement of self? If so, then 
we welcome you to our Brotherhood* We reach out 
to you a hand over the infi.xxite ^^^.cfts»^ Vt^xssL *<Xs& ^^jots.^ 



86 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

forgotten centuries, and recognize you slb brother and 
comrade. 

Henceforth stand for Humanity. The Master ever 
presents the sickle when we are ready to reap. 



If these words stir thee within it is the answering 
cry of the true Ego. The Astral self recognizes the 
vibrations of the eternal. It rests wholly with you if 
this recognition be heeded or pans by unfruitfiilly. 
If you would ACT consider well our advice: 
**Be ye wise as serjientn but harmless as doves." 
There is much in this command. Only a Mystic is 
thus described. Attain this through the Ideal Life. 

if 

A bulb — before it becomes a blooming plant — lies 
secret and silent in the earth. It finds in this condi* 
tion its only opjiortunity of existence. Antagonistic 
forces pass it by as it lies hid in its work of develop- 
ment. So must your reason develoj) — hid in yourself. 
Diligence is the jirice of knowledge. Money will not 
buy, create, dispose of or destroy it. The mental rises 
above the material. Mysticism cannot be measured 
by money. Reason must spring to life from within. 

There is no problem too sacred for investigation, 
and it is the i)eculiar desire of the Mystic to reason 
out any problem with candor and carefulness. The 
health and energy of youth, inspired by an ardor for 
truth, mark his movements. No laggard, no dotard« 
no waiting, shiftless soul may hoi>e to overtake the 
nimble feet of esoteric truth. 

The Mystic ]i(>sHesses an intelligence that brightens 
with attrition. No oVistacle should daunt him, no wall 
should bar him, no cord or chain should bind him in 
his intellectual development and search for truth. He 
acquires facts as a miser acquires wealth, storing them 
in the strong-box of bis memory; but, unlike a miser, 
he givea freely of his store and ^et xetaAtis his alL 



THE AURA OF MAGIC POWER. 87 

Purity of purpose and the physical being is a neces- 
sary condition in traveling the rugged path of Mystic 
development. We cannot enter into ^diseased condi- 
tions. We may set forces in operation that assuage 
deep-seated sorrow and physical suffering, but we can- 
not promise to bring music out of inharmonious notes. 
To try to do so would surely result in deep injury to 
ourselves. Be pure. 

The Mystic who lives a pure life does not dissipate 
his forces. The dissolute man does. Conserved ger- 
minal forces give to the individual a purple aura which 
envelops him at all points. This is broken down and 
destroyed by those acts which result from degrading 
desires. With this aura unimpaired the Mystic pos- 
sesses the power necessary to the practice of Mag^c. 
Take heed, therefore, that this force is preserved. 

• 



We now propose to indicate the path of celestial 
communication by means of the Magic Mirror. Should 
you, having conscientiously filled all necessary condi- 
tions, fall short of this end, do not be cast down. To 
those who are faithful will be given much. If better 
results can be obtained than through the Mirror, or if 
we can give you through inspiration what we may 
desire to especially communicate, we certainly shall 
not try to use it. The Mirror is only used to further 
our mutual work. If you seek merely the evidence of 
our existence, or ends apart from ours, you will surely 
be doomed to disappointment. We cannot be deceived 
by anyone. Your fruits infallibly disclose your spirit 
to us. You cannot tempt us. No man possesses any 
desirable thing that we have not an abundance of. A 
true and tried Mystic we shall aid if he seeks only to 
advance the Master's work hy obeying truth. 

It may be years before the Mystic — for whom alone 
this, communication is made — may obtain the particu- 
lar results he aims for, but he abo^\d. xvoi^xfi^^^ ^^ci:^^ 



88 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

magic, as spiritual chemistry, rests upon unchangeable 
and infinite principles, and that the lack or intrusion 
of spiritual elements will invalidate his work. He 
should, like the Sun, Persevere. 



While capacity marks the possible degree of devel- 
ment of the true Mystic, the principle of co-ordination 
indicates the possible degree of communication. To 
enter into such relations with us he must place himself 
in a class of vibratory forces that correspond or harmo- 
nize with our own. To attain this condition he should 
carefully fix a practical ideal in his mind of the kind of 
life a true Mystic should live. Here is where the Mys- 
tic measures himself, at what he actually is, and takes 
the measure of what he desires to become. He should 
examine himself just as he would a parcel of goods — 
seeking both inferior and superior qualities — and note 
each defect and virtue. Then he should plan, like a 
general, the attack and defense of an ideal life. Hav- 
ing put your hand to the plow, by doing this, look not 
back, for back of you is death. This is the turn in 
the path, long desired, that discloses the King's High- 
way of Truth, for only kings travel therein. To live 
the ideal life is to travel this highway. Until you so 
live do not expect to rise. 

Live the Ideal Life, 

Bight actions and pure thoughts are essential* as 
they drive away and destroy all vain and frivolous 
hindrances. Aspire and you will be inspired. Do the 
work you find ready to do; its clear conception shows 
the time to act. Do not defer a good action as oppor- 
tunity is lost through procrastination. 

Thus thinking^ acting and living the ideal Mystic life 
you will make rapid progress to a stage of develop- 
ment where we may be able to communicate with you. 

Having arisen from a selfish existence to the Mystic 
Ideal Life—a/nd not b<ifore— y ou ax« Va «^ v^o\^t coudl* 



MATERIALS FOR THE MIRROR. 89 

tion to seek relations with us through the, Magic Mir- 
ror. You are now fit to undertake its construction. 

THE MAGIC MIRROR. 

i^PULL. MATERIALS, CONDmONS AND PERSONAL PREPARATION, i 

• WITH CXDMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING AND MAG-* 

lilr NETIZING THE MIRROR. • HOW IT MUST BE KEPT, tc 

The wise Mystic makes his own Mirror, 

Not that it cannot be made for him, but that if he 
makes his own Mirror it will more surely accord with 
his own personality — a necessary correspondence — and, 
besides, it will not prove a bar to communication like 
one impregnated with the selfish and perverted forces 
of some other person whose sole object is of a financial 
nature. Unless special and worthy reasons exist for 
doing otherwise, you will make your own Mirror. 

Procure the following materials for the work: 

One 6J^x8i concave glass, free from flaws. This size 
is not an arbitrary one, but that most convenient. 

Small can of best turpentine asphaltum. This will 
be found ready for use when needed. Do not dilute it 
and keep the can tightly corked when not in use. 

A new piece of cardboard or heavy paper about 8 by 
10 inches, to put under glass when coating. This will 
be a handy means of handling the glass, which will 
adhere to the cardboard wherever the asphaltum runs 
over its edge, and prevents the furniture or covers 
from being soiled while the work progresses. 

A box, dust tight, to hold the cardboard and glass 
while the different coats of asphaltum are drying. 

One pint of spirits of turpentine, high grade, with 
which to clean the brush, glass and saucers. This 
amount will be enough for the complete work if care 
is taken not to waste it. 

A new one-inch hair brush, some new cloth to cl^n 
the glai^ with, and two bxlj\it c\^%xl ecraa. ^»;s^^«s^- 



90 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

A light wooden box, fitted to the glass, to receive it 
when the Mirror is completed. This can be made out 
of a caramel box that any confectioner will give you. 
The box is of the required depth. It should contain 
an inside border, on which the glass is to rest so as 
to come a little above the bottom. Make the inside 
border out of wooden strips. The cover may be made 
to be kept in place by rubber bands, allowing it to be 
removed when using the Mirror. Make the box before 
you make the Mirror; when you can use the glass for a 
pattern without injuring its asphaltum back. Such a 
box as we here describe is the most convenient. 

There are no more superior materials in existence 
with which to make a Magic Mirror. Under no cir- 
cumstances use anything but asphaltum to coat the 
glass. Good mirrors are always dark. 

If you like, procure half a yard of new cloth, of any 
color desired, to wrap the Mirror in instead of keeping 
it in a box. If a cloth is used always hold the Mirror 
by it or the coating will stick slighMy where touched. 

Everything used in the work should be clean, fresh 
and new. The total cost is from one to two dollars. 



Keep your project silent from the world. Meditate 
seriously on your undertaking, and purify yourself in 
every way for its successful performance. 

Let your mind be actuated by pure and lofty aspira- 
tions and desires when you make your Mirror. Let 
care and worry and self be forgotten by employing the 
mind wholly with the work in hand and the purposes 
for which the Mirror is being made. It is well to read 
this article over carefully, in fact, just before its work 
is undertaken. 

Let the day for commencing the work be bright and 
the surroundings calm and cheerful, with nothing to 
disturb the agreeable condltiona. 



MAKING THE MAGIC MIRROR. 91 

With your materials you will enter a room that has 
been thoroughly set in order, free from taint of any 
kind, and, facing the Eccst, commence the work. ^ 

• 



Pour a little turpentine into one saucer and some 
asphaltum into the other. With a piece of new cloth 
clean the glass well with turpentine. This will make 
the asphaltum adhere firmly to the back. Clean the 
brush well, also, in the saucer of turpentine. Having 
placed the glass, concave or hollow side down, on the 
cardboard or paper, carefully coat its convex side with 
the asphaltum, beginning at one end of the glass and 
working gradually to the other. Lay the coating on 
smoothly and evenly, not stopping for any other pur- 
pose until it is finished. Do not go back over your 
work. Any imperfection in the coating is to be rem- 
edied by another coat a week later — three such coats 
being usually necessary to make the glass opaque. 

•. 



The coating being finished you will now magnetize 
the work as follows: With the right hand, held with 
the palm about three inches over the glass, you will 
describe a circular motion for a minute or so and then 
do the like with the left hand. The line of motion 
made by the hands will intersect each other, you will 
find if you do it properly, on that side of the glass 
farther from you, like two wheels running in contrary 
directions. Whatever motions you feel impressed to 
make outside of these here specified you may follow 
with confidence, as they pertain to your own individu- 
ality, only do not try to give any special movement to 
the hands for fancy's sake merely. The palms of the 
hands should be held over all parts of the glass. A 
slow movement is better than a fast one, and at times 
the hands may be held perfectly still over both ends 
of the glass. It is not the movement of the hands tlia.t 
magnetizes the coating oi aa'^glVk^l^.uxfiL^ >on^ •Cql^ om^^^^ 



92 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

the operator. Asphaltum absorbs the vital aura more 
readily, and retains it more ."permanently than other 
substances used for mirrors. The chemical constitu- 
tion of the coating* is influenced by the magnetizing 
process and its atomic structure conforms to the auric 
vibrations of its maker. Let all the movements of 
the hands therefore be such as give the asphaltum an 
opportunity to absorb the magnetic aura in an even 
and orderly mariner. 

While the Mirror is being magnetized the palms will 
feel cool, as though the glass was cold, by reason of 
their aura being absorbed by its coating. When the 
magnetic process is finished you will be well aware of 
it, for the hands will feel exhausted of their force. 

The Mirror develops poles when magnetized, similar 
to those of a magnet. Be careful to keep these poles 
distinct and clear. To aid in this, name them right 
and left poles. The right pole is that end of the glass 
nearest the right hand. When using or again coating 
the Mirror keep its right pole to the right side. 

When you have given the Mirror its coat of asphal- 
tum and magnetized it as directed, you will place the 
drying box beside it. Mark the poles on the outside 
ends of the box and place the glass and cardboard in 
it accordingly. Close it carefully and set it away to 
dry in a place of even temperature, and where it will 
be protected from the curious. 

This part of the matter being accomplished, you 
wiil return the remaining asphaltum to the can, cork- 
ing it up tightly, Cleanse the brush in the turpentine, 
working it in the fluid as long as any of the asphaltum 
remains. Clean the china with turpentine also, and 
then lay all aside for future use. 

When you have, on three occasions, re-coated and 

re-magnetized the Mirror it will be, when thoroughly 

dried and hardened, opaque and ready for use. You 

will now mount it in its proper box, being careful to 

mark the poles as before. 



HOW A MIRROR DIES. 98 

You now possess the most valuable instrument that 
ancient magicians possessed. It is the key to the hid- 
den realms beyond and all the mysteries of the past. 
It i9 a comforter, guide and counselor. As a friend, 
i^8t^uctor and oracle it will not deceive or betray. 

Let no one handle your Mirror but yourself. Keep 
it where it will not freeze or come in contact with low 
influences. As you are yourself pure so your Mirror 
will in sympathy accord. 



Knowing how, you may make a Mirror for any one 
who applies to you by reason of their personal desire. 
Never solicit the making of ,a Mirror. Only a pro- 
nounced Mystic really needs one. Do not charge over 
a reasonable price for your services. Make it invaria- 
bly as though for yourself, and deliver the one made 
however much you may be attached to it. Such Mir- 
rors are known as Elemental, rather than Astral, as 
they relate to the Natural instead of the Celestial or 
Divine World. To make a Celestial Mirror one must 
attain to the Celestial Life. Such a Mirror dies — as a 
Celestial Mirror — when handled by any other than its 
maker, except under such astronomical safeguards as 
have been described in a previous chapter. 

CELESTIAL COMPANIONSHIP. 

if ITECESSARY OBSERVANCES IN DEVELOPING COMMUNICATION, if 

p IfBTHODS OF THE BROTHERHOOD IN THE WORK, if FIRST i^ 

if APPEARANCES, if ASTRAL ADEPTSHIP ATTAINED, if 

The ideal mystic life must not be relaxed. Keep it 
steadily growing. Closely examine the events of each 
4ay, at its close, and note every failure or lapse, solv- 
ing how to avoid such hindrances in the future. 

True prayer includes self-examination. 

Living your mystic ideal will bring new joys, peace 
of mind, and the inspiration of truth and goodness. 

A growth of Boul appeara aa t\x% \scql« \aa2o^N«&5^^s^> 



94 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

As you succeed in higher attainments so purer aspira- 
tions are born within. With these cometh Power — a 
power that rejuvenates every Mystic who, in giving 
according to his ability, receives according to his capac- 
ity. He dwelleth in God who loveth him and keepeth 
his commandments. All these are written within us. 

Never, until the Ideal Life is attained, can you know 
the full meaning of Youth. The true Mystic is ever 
filled with its sacred fire. Attaining the Celestial Life 
is to be created anew through Divine Love. 

Unfoldment, progress, rejuvenating power — these 
develop from within. A legion of angels might attend 
your call and no result follow their ministrations as 
each soul is its own judge for life or death, and stands 
or falls by its own decision. 

The Ego must unfold from taithin, 

• 



With a heart on fire for Humanity, a mind aspiring 
for truth, and a hand eager to engage in good works — 
all these invariably resulting from the Ideal Life — you 
need and shall have our companionship, for now your 
aims are ours — our work is one. Through your Magic 
Mirror, therefore, you may now seek our companionship^ 
following the instructions we here set forth. 

Remember, however, that we are finite beings. If we 
were infallible we would not need your co-operation. 
Absolute perfection rests only in God, and he alone is 
infinitely Powerful, Just and Good. 

Sad is the day of nirvana, for nirvana is death. The 
great boon of immortal life is to forever approach the 
throne of Infinite and Eternal Truth. 

• 



In the first place you must give us an opportunity to 
communicate with you. This calls for certain condi- 
tions. Set regular times for developing in the use of 
jrour Magic Mirror, Two or tYite^ t\m^% i^ nt^aIc will 



ESTABLISHING COMMUNICATION. 95 

answer. Every day is best of all. Let the sittings be 
from thirty minutes to an hour and a half. Always 
begin to sit at the same time of day. If you change 
the time announce it audibly. Let nothing interfere 
with your sittings except imperative duties. Curious 
persons should know nothing of your object, and you 
will be silent, therefore, regarding it. Do not disap- 
point us or you may disappoint yourself. You will 
soon form the habit of sitting and it will rest the body 
and refresh the mind so long as you live the life. 

Do not try to sit over fifteen minutes at first. The 
length of the sittings will regulate themselves. 

A neat, comfortable room should be used. No one 
else should be present unless engaged with you in the 
work. The mind should be composed and, above all, 
patient. Let the room be dark. Sit easy; do not lean 
forward; hold the Mirror with both hands, and let your 
thumbs touch the glass. Look at the Mirror as you 
would into the eyes of a friend. As you cannot see it 
do not strain the eyes by trying to do so. If a sleepy 
feeling arises resist it; if unable to do so, stop sitting 
for a few moments and then sit again. 

• 



As soon as any Mystic is known to be seeking com- 
panionship with us, as we have here plainly, fully and cor- 
rectly describedy and who has conscientiously carried out all 
our conditions and directions, and not othenvise, he is vis- 
ited by members of our brotherhood and certain data 
secured. We shall ignore all others. He who meets 
all requirements we cannot ignore. The true and tried 
Mystic has nothing to fear or lose and much to expect 
?nd gain. We carefully note his capacity, environ- 
ments, ability, vibratory forces, periods of sittings, 
and other necessary matters. A report is made, acted 
upon, and the report and action taken is recorded. 

To establish communication, a brother must be £o\ia^ 
whose vibratory forces accotdi \?'V0ci>5aa^^ o^^ *Ccw^ ^s^^«^ 



96 THE MYSTIC THESAURUS. 

He volunteers as a companion and endeavors to estab* 
lish communication with him at stated intervals. It 
is a difficult matter, sometimes, to get just the right 
companion, but if the sitter be patient, regular and 
faithful, he may expect us to visit him and aid in the 
ultimate success of the work. Many times some phys- 
ical peculiarity stands in the way, and, if no results 
are obtained within a reasonable time, the Mystic may 
conclude that such is the case and endeavor to locate 
the impediment. By applying himself with renewed 
vigor to the Ideal Life he may grow out of it. Never, 
under any circumstances, try to interest us in selfish 
ends, for such aims will sever our relations with you. 

When the right companion is secured, results soon 
come on the mirror. At first a white, cloudy appear- 
ance seem to fioat over the Mirror, arising from the 
projection and condensation of your auric forces. A 
wide range of psychic phenomena may also appear. 
The singing of birds, the odor of flowers, a gentle 
rocking or swinging of the earth, or a marvelous light 
may come to you. Preserve your calmness and do not 
fear or become too eager. Suddenly a very bright star 
will appear in the glass and travel across or around 
its firmament This is the sign of positive success. 

You will know, when this result appears, that we 
exist; that we are with you; that we have measured 
and recognized you. Of the things you now receive 
observe well our monitions if you would be one of the 
few who attain to the heights of Astral Adeptship. 

The veil of Isis is about to rise. 



The work here undertaken will never end short of 
the permanent well-being of Humanity. All men are 
brethren, whatever their color, clime or creed, and they 
must ultimately learn that the true good of each can 
only be obtained through just opportunities for alL 

Then Love, the Word, will be Te-iovLXv8Liote.N^x. 



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